Quotes and Sayings about Neurosis
"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
(Related: People, Control, End, Neurosis, Will)
"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
(Related: Energy, Neurosis)
"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
(Related: Acceptance, Neurosis, Risk)
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Ambiguity, Neurosis)
"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
(Related: Life, Purpose, Neurosis, Result)
"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Neurosis, Value)
"National isolation breeds national neurosis."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: Isolation, Neurosis)
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Neurosis, Suffering)
"My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis."
- Anish Kapoor
(Related: Life, Work, History, Neurosis)
"Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Knowledge, Guilt, Neurosis, Sin)
"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
(Related: War, Fear, Gods, Destruction, First, Hatred, May, Neurosis, Propaganda)
"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
- Theodor Reik
(Related: Work, Love, Neurosis)
"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."
- Milton R. Sapirstein
(Related: Home, Education, Neurosis)
"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."
- William Styron
(Related: Age, Neurosis, Writing)
"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
(Related: Certainty, Doubt, Neurosis, Problems)
"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being."
- Paul Tillich
(Related: Being, Neurosis)
"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
(Related: Legal, End, Judgment, Neurosis)
"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Neurosis)