17 Quotes on Neurosis

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

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

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

  Author: William Styron

• Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

  Author: Milton Sapirstein

• Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

  Author: Theodor Reik

• 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.

  Author: John Orr

• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Author: Henry Miller

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Author: Carl Jung

• National isolation breeds national neurosis.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• 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.

  Author: Anatole France

• It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

  Author: Lawrence Durrell

• 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.

  Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

• The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

  Author: Arthur Adamov

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