Quotes About Neurosis

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.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

when highly sensitive patients had experienced a trauma, sexual or otherwise, they had been unusually affected and so developed a neurosis.

Neurosis, he said, in the nearest he came to a definitive definition, is the suffering of a soul that has not found its meaning.

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing— campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

In het algemeen wordt passiviteit te weinig als deugd erkent. Actie lijk altijd beter - want heroïscher - dan rustig afwachten en nietsdoen. Vermoedelijk komt dat ook omdat wij vrijwel allemaal neuroten zijn die de leegte willen opvullen met werk en andere activiteiten.

Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence

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.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

Creo que siempre es preferible la neurosis a la imbecilidad.

The whole world itself is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply because modern man has stopped using his body to a large extent.

Anxiety-neurosis had been observed in soldiers in World War I, but once a soldier was removed from the stress of combat, symptoms generally disappeared.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Years after her death, I started thinking mean things about myself, and that holding on to her shirt was pure neurotic clinging. That it was ridiculous. Part of me understood that my hold on it had to do with the excruciating mess and weirdness of my family: how only a handful of people in your lifetime help redeem this mess, so that when one of them dies, hope dies. You never fully recover. You can't.

Napredek in ?udovito obdobje besne?ega razvoja sta po njegovem ustvarila generacijo duševnih pohabljencev, ki bi bila potrebna nege v zdraviliš?ih. Prinesla sta s seboj množi?no živ?nost, množi?no histerijo, množi?ni dolg?as in množi?no smrt.

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.

Cuando hay amor tenemos el antídoto clave contra la neurosis, porque la ausencia de amor es el ingrediente esencial para que prospere la neurosis.

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

Freud definió la neurosis como el hecho de alejarse del Yo, y eso es. El verdadero Yo es el amor dentro de nosotros. Es el «hijo de Dios». El yo temeroso es un impostor. La vuelta al amor es el gran drama cósmico, el viaje personal desde lo ilusorio hasta el Yo, del dolor a la paz interior.

Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.

With some gratitude, I realized that my awareness was now stronger than my neurosis. This did not mean that things would never go to pieces, only that I did not have to fall apart when they did. In fact, my own ability to go to pieces was protecting me in this situation. I did not have to let my identity as an efficient and together person imprison me.

We cannot find our enlightened minds while continuing to be estranged from our neurotic ones.

The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.