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Tag Name "Neurotics" (29)

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Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.
Muriel Spark
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Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread the present just doesn't exist.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics make poor patriots if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud
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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
Pat Barker
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
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All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Alfred Adler
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There is nothing wrong with women's studies that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
Florence King
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History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
George Orwell
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Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.
Jack Sharkey
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt
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Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
Marcel Proust
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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
Mignon McLaughlin
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We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.
Nancy Hale
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He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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