23 Neurosis Quotes for You to Enjoy

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud

Neurosis Ambiguity Inability Tolerate

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. Chaz Bono

People Complicated Gender Transgender Birth Alignment Those Percent Neurosis Like Brain Body Your Your Body Palate Things Defect

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself. Vernon Howard

Spiritual Yourself Evil Destroy Above Only Attack Neurosis Arising Badness Development Motive Human Which Against Your Enlightenment Chance

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

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

You Secret Neurosis Know Keeping

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. Abraham Maslow

Good You Man Sickness Respecting See Neurosis Toward Most Inefficient Understand Effort Psychiatrists Ends Might Compassionate Below

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself. Alison Moyet

Music Myself People Girl Music Industry Alienate Peg Neurosis Like Industry Felt Always Odd Lot Square Hole Created Round

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 Degree High Risk Constructing Neurosis Neurotic Devout Task Personal Against Them Spares Certain Illnesses Believers Universal

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

Only Neurosis Know How The Only Thing Use Your Thing

As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis. Damon Knight

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. Ethan Hawke

Society Our Kind Neurosis Lead Perfection Obsession Stuff Self-Loathing Hollywood

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? Iain Sinclair

Family You Property World Imagination Syndrome Stays About Something Neurosis House Years Itself Expanding Person Same Dysfunctional Migration Perverse Who Now Portfolio Presents

Boy, if anyone wants to get visited from an alien, it's me. I'm dying, and I've been sending out that invitation to the universe ever since I was a kid. I don't believe in little green men. That's collective neurosis of society. So I don't believe that. Joe Satriani

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

Bit OK Neurosis Performer Apart Little Little Bit Tear

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. Patrick deWitt

Me Minimal Brothers Neurosis Impetus Occurred Westerns Sisters Amount

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us. Peter Capaldi

Great You People Anxiety World Gift Parents Own Gave Our Everything Ease Kids Great Gift Admiring About Seemed Give Neurosis Through Because Without Always Conduct Move Maybe Which Themselves Us Your Who

I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider. Susanna Fogel

Perspective Humor Hair Bat Definitely Kids Brown Only Neurosis Outsider Self-Deprecating Mitzvah Heathen Being Informed Hometown Jewish

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. Theresa Rebeck

Finished Become Live Difficult Think Finishing Neurosis Writers Most Terribly Anxious Different Then Really Things

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

Good Age Writing Someone Neurosis Good Writing Always Been Any Product

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

People Will Control Extremely Hook Inside Something Neurosis Take He Head Like Caught End Goes Them Then Who Round

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