Quotes About Neurosis

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

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.

Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.

Having been fucked up by my family and community, I'll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and "neurosis" begins. But as a gay person I know I'm a vital element in our civilization.

Restringiendo la respiración, el individuo neurótico reduce su energía y su vitalidad, y de esa forma logra mantener un control inconsciente sobre sus sentimientos, su ira, sus miedos y su tristeza. Como

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.

All failures – neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes – are failures because they are lacking in social interest.

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?

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

I am the deepest of unbelievers. Every neurosis is a religion to its owner and religions is the universal neurosis of mankind. This is much beyond doubt: the characteristics we attribute to God reflect the fears and wishes we first feel as infants and as small children. Anyone who does not see that much cannot have understood the first thing about human psychology, If it is religion you are looking for, do not follow me.

Her nevroz, kiÅŸi için bir dindir ve din, insanoÄŸlunun evrensel nevrozudur. Åžu hiç ÅŸüphesiz doÄŸru: Tanr?'ya atfettiÄŸimiz özellikler ve güçler, önce bebekken ve sonra da küçük çocukken ta??d???m?z korkular? ve dileklerimizi yans?t?yor.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

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.