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Tag Name "Neurosis" (136)

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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past it passes out memories generously like a great lord it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.
Umberto Eco
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I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.
Anna Silk
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Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.
Marie-Louise von Franz
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton Sapirstein
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
Anish Kapoor
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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.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.
Vincent Van Gogh
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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Evelyn Waugh
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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.
Anatole France
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
Anais Nin
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The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.
Wallace Stevens
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The neurotic has problems the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz
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Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.
Alfred Adler
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Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
Albert Ellis
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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
Albert Ellis
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Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
Albert Ellis
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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
Alan Watts
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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
William Styron
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Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis it is simply to slip out of them.
Rajneesh
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
Chogyam Trungpa
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
Ben Jonson
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Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.
Renata Salecl
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