Neurosis Quotes

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make t...

The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude ...

The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patie...

It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties an...

Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate...

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged i...

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative...

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

in this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's me...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, an...

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Our “increasing mental sickness” may find expression in neurotic symptoms. These symptoms are conspi...

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by lif...

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I bel...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly im...

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of t...

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

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