Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Neurosis Quotes

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

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. 
Sigmund Freud 

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. 
Henry Miller 

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 

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. 
Carl Jung 

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. 
Sigmund Freud 

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. 
Ethan Hawke 

National isolation breeds national neurosis. 
Hubert H. Humphrey 

Education, like neurosis, begins at home. 
Milton Sapirstein 

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it. 
Vincent D'Onofrio 

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. 
Anish Kapoor 

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. 
John Boyd Orr 

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. 
Chastity Bono 

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. 
Lionel Trilling 

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 

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 

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. 
Paul Tillich 

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. 
William Styron 

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. 
Kenneth Tynan 

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. 
Theodor Reik

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