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My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
— Helen McCrory
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.
— Helen M. Luke
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
— Louis Auchincloss
I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.
— Christine Teigen
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
— Laura Marling
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
— Mignon McLaughlin
There's a fearsome creature that no man can ever hope to vanquish: the neurotic Bridezilla.
— Loretta Lost
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.
— Laura Schlessinger
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
— Carson McCullers
All currency is neurotic currency.
— Norman O. Brown
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic rich, as one doctor he knew used to term his clientele. The worried well.
— John Katzenbach
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.11
— Viktor E. Frankl
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
— Denis De Rougemont
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
— Mignon McLaughlin
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
— Kirstie Alley
I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?
— Rebecca Romijn
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[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
— Karen Horney
Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.
— Claire Danes
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
— Gwen Stefani
Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.
— Rahul Karn
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
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
— Mason Cooley
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.
— Megan Fox
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.
— Russell Brand
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.
— Herb Kelleher
She had that fine-drawn intense look that is sometimes neurotic, sometimes sex-hungry, and sometimes just the result of drastic dieting. I
— Raymond Chandler
You drive me crazy!""You were always crazy. I just highlight it. — Anna McPartlin
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
She was a little neurotic - hello, she organized her paper-clip collection by size and color - but she was the best
— Jessica Burkhart
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
— Ralph Fiennes
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
— Mignon McLaughlin
In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
— Truman Capote
The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
— M. Scott Peck
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
— Roland Barthes
The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
— Charlotte Rampling
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
— Terence McKenna
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
— Gene Tierney
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
— Lionel Trilling
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
— Guillermo Del Toro
The key is to be quiet. It's not thatyour mind has to be quiet. You be quiet.
You, the one inside watching the
neurotic mind, just relax. — Michael Singer
... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.
— Mary MacLane
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
— Rita Mae Brown
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
— Sigmund Freud
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too.
— Robin Lord Taylor
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.
— Candace Bushnell
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.
— Oscar De La Renta
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
— Marlon Brando
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
— Alfred Adler
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
— Judith Viorst
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
— Sigmund Freud
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.
— Karen Horney
