Top 416 Neurotic Quotes & Sayings

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I'm a neurotic attention-seeker.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.

I've been neurotic in my life; I've had neurotic relationships with men. What else is new? But you really have to learn to be resilient - able to bounce back, pick yourself up, and just keep moving.

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?

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.

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.

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.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

I'm pretty neurotic.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

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.

It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

I like the mad and neurotic pace of television.