75 Quotes About Neurosis

At times, Melete continued, it had seemed to her that this fact was what had created this behavior. Her sense of reality, in other words, had created something outside itself that mocked and hated her. But as I say, she said, those thoughts belong to the world of religious sensibility, which has become in our times the language of neurosis.

He [William S Burroughs] has no patience for my kind of neurosis, I know... But since then I've been facing my nature full in the face and the result is a purge.

La neurosis es un mal menor: no en relación con la "salud" sino en relación con ese "imposible" del que hablaba Bataille ("La neurosis es la miedosa aprehensión de un fondo imposible", etc.); pero ese mal menor es el único que permite escribir (y leer).

Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis

Vives en un mundo rodeado de reglas y normas y ¿qué ha ocurrido? Fíjate en el estado actual de la humanidad. Es un mundo neurótico, un gran manicomio. Es el resultado de todas vuestras normas, idealismo, perfeccionismo y moralidad. Es la consecuencia de vuestros mandamientos... el mundo se ha convertido en un reducto de neuróticos, en un inmenso manicomio. Y aún tienes miedo a las llamas del infierno. Es un círculo vicioso.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

The neuroses parody the virtues.