Neurotic Quotes

• If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

  Sylvia Plath

  Two, Neurosis, Hell

  The Bell Jar ch. 8 (1963)

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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• Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Risk

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• Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sleep, News, Awakened

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Indecisive, Difficult, Opinionated

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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• The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Wish

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

  Sigmund Freud

  Degrees, Neurosis, Psychologist

  "Analysis with Freud" by Joseph Wortis, 1954.

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• There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Iron, Three, Links

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

  Sigmund Freud

  Talking, Complaining, Lioness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

  Alfred Adler

  Fiction, Neurosis, Medical

  "The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines Of A Comparative Individualistic Psychology And Psychotherapy".

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• The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

  Georges Bataille

  Blood, Giving, Battle

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• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

  Marcel Proust

  Religion, Literature, World

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Problem, Psychotic

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• I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

  Stephen Sondheim

  People, Beneath The Surface, Surface

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• Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

  Marlon Brando

  Maturity, Expression, Acting

  "He was always a contender" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2004.

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• Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

  Connie Willis

  Writing

  "Gratitude" by Abigail Bereola, therumpus.net. October 08, 2013.

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• And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

  Thom Yorke

  Careers, Made, Paranoid

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• I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Psychotic, Psychiatry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

  Robert Six

  Work, Doors, Obstacles

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• Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Country, Proud, Patriot

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.88, BookBaby

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• I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

  Phil Donahue

  Stupid, Silly, Feelings

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychosis, Doubt, Neurosis

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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