75 Quotes About Neurosis

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.