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Tag Name "Neurotic" (206)

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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 dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Mignon McLaughlin
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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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Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
Mignon McLaughlin
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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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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 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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Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.
Sam Keen
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Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.
Paul Tillich
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I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
Phil Donahue
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The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in bars on your door mean that he's locked out.
Mignon McLaughlin
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The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.
Rajneesh
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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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Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.
Renata Adler
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The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
Mignon McLaughlin
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As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
Ridley Pearson
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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
Mignon McLaughlin
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One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
Robert Musil
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