Top 43 Quotes About Neurotics
#1. The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud
#2. Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt
#3. Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.
Samuel R. Delany
#4. We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.
Nancy Hale
#5. 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
#6. Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
Mignon McLaughlin
#7. Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
Marcel Proust
#8. All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.
Sigmund Freud
#9. Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
Mignon McLaughlin
#11. I hated Hollywood. It's a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.
Grace Kelly
#12. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
Cyril Connolly
#13. Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Mignon McLaughlin
#14. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
#15. Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Mignon McLaughlin
#17. The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
Boris Sidis
#18. Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
Mignon McLaughlin
#20. History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
George Orwell
#21. [Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
Karen Horney
#22. Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ...
Muriel Spark
#23. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
#25. Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
Pat Barker
#26. We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
#27. Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.
Jack Sharkey
#28. All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.
Marcel Proust
#29. Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Mignon McLaughlin
#30. All neurotics seek the religious
Carl Jung
#31. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#32. Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Mignon McLaughlin
#34. Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
#35. The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.
Marcel Proust
#36. Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.
Pat Barker
#37. There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
Florence King
#38. Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Alfred Adler
#40. 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
#41. In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
Karl Abraham
#42. He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#43. 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
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