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In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself.
— George Orwell
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
— Karl Abraham
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
— Tiffany Madison
Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
— Lawrence Durrell
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
— D.H. Lawrence
Now if only I could do something about my neurosis that forces me to narrate my life out loud for everyone to hear, I said, to no one in particular.
— Iain S. Thomas
The more neurosis the more wisdom.
— Pema Chodron
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
— David Brin
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[ ... ]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.
— Henry Miller
If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.
— Chuck Spezzano
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
— Albert Ellis
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
— Thomas Merton
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
— Bertrand Russell
I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.
— John Schneider
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
— Malcolm Bradbury
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
— Sigmund Freud
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.
— Andrew Graham-Dixon
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
— Norman O. Brown
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Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
— Sigmund Freud
Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.
— Sigmund Freud
Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.
— Julian Mitchell
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.
— Loudon Wainwright III
Any demand is frigid until desire, until neurosis forms in it.
— Roland Barthes
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
— Arthur Adamov
Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being
— Paul Tillich
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
— Patrick DeWitt
Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.
— Martin Amis
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[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.
— Joseph Brodsky
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
— Sigmund Freud
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
— Judith Viorst
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
— Albert Ellis
The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
— Shulamith Firestone
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
— Milton Sapirstein
The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
— Natalie Goldberg
Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.
— Sigmund Freud
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of ... mature people is of crucial importance.
— Marie-Louise Von Franz
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
— Mason Cooley
Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis
— Sigmund Freud
The neuroses parody the virtues.
— Mason Cooley
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity
— Sigmund Freud
Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.
— Viktor E. Frankl
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
— Terence McKenna
To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.
— Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
— Kenneth Tynan
Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
— Tom Robbins
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
— Flannery O'Connor
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
— Sam Taylor-Wood
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
— Rabih Alameddine
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Everything but happiness is neurosis.
— Anais Nin
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