Quotes about neurosis




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"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

Bankhead, Tallulah on neurosis
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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."

Bataille, Georges on neurosis    Share

"If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows."

Brautigan, Richard on neurosis    Share

"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

Dickens, Charles on neurosis    Share

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

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"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."

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."

Plath, Sylvia on neurosis    Share

"The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis    Share

"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?"

Proust, Marcel on neurosis
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"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis
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"Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis    Share

"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."

Trilling, Lionel on neurosis    Share

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