Neurotic Quotes

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy, Insecurity, Person

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.
Sylvia Plath

Time, Two, Same

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

Acceptance, Personal, Against

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando

Life, Maturity, Acting

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman

Mistakes, Past, Remember

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence

Lives, Air, Psychotic

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

Life, Family, Patient

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

Doubt, Short, Problems

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler

Fiction, Cross, Nailed

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Society, Yourself, Against

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Stephen Sondheim

Hear, Surface, Beneath

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.
Bridget Fonda

Pretty, Afraid, Making

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

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
Jenna Elfman

Time, Women, Character

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

Acting, Sure, Deeply

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler

Real, Person, Him

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
Deborah Kerr

Successful, Sorry, Start

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

Career, Made, Paranoid

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
Francesca Annis

Success, Become, Lose

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser

Control, Depressed, Happened

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.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Time, Nice, Vegetarian

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
Jonathan Kozol

Culture, Guilt, Clever

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Martha Beck

Nature, Future, Between

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Job, Treat, Anyone

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder

Time, Trying, Wrong

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
Gene Tierney

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Karl Abraham

Work, Through, Serious

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.
Gwen Stefani

Life, Diet, Girl

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
Gwen Stefani

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
Kirstie Alley

Works, Psychotic, Psychiatry

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