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Tag Name "Neurotic" (206)

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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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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 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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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
Sigmund Freud
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The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
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I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
Sigmund Freud
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After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed after all, he does.
Mignon McLaughlin
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An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005
Simon Barnes
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Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.
Moby
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Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.
Monica Youn
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Others settle for small rewards the neurotic must always go for broke.
Mignon McLaughlin
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden
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The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
Mignon McLaughlin
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All currency is neurotic currency.
Norman O. Brown
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The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
Mignon McLaughlin
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