Top 183 Neurosis Quotes & Sayings

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

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

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

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

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

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

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

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.

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

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

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.