Neurotic Quotes - Page 9

• I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

  Tennessee Williams

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

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• Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

  Dean Koontz

  Depression, Mental Illness, Psychotic

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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• There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Horse, Class, Two

  1919 Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.

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• Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer.

  David Foster Wallace

  New York, Mean, Numbers

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• [Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Mean, People

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• Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

  Douglas Adams

  Stars, Decision, Frustrated

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

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• Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation Practice

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• I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Meditation, Serenity

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• In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Optimistic, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

  Jared Leto

  Who I Am, Games, Play

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• Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

  William Hurt

  Trying, Arbitrary, Actors

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Soul, Vision

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• Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

  Ntozake Shange

  People, Feelings, Our Society

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• A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Neurosis, Might

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• I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

  Leslie Jamison

  Knowing, Anxiety, Horizon

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

  David Lee Roth

  Sex, Hippie, Rocks

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• Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Nerd, Fans, Needy

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. July 1, 2004.

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• It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid

  Kate Moss

  Hate, Stupid, Fats

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• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Views

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

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• Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have done the same to us. Stop doing it to yourself and stop doing it to others. Become alert. Just be real. I emphasize reality more than truth. Because truth has been used by the anti-life people so much, it has wrong associations. Be real. If you are real, one thing will start disappearing from your heart, and that is guilt.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Real, Heart

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• The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

  Anais Nin

  Creativity, Reality, Drug

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Morning, Night

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