27 Quotes About Neurotic

You drive me crazy!""You were always crazy. I just highlight it.

The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic, although there may be a false distinction there.

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.

A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.

The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.

... I don’t like people who mistake their private neurosis for a philosophical outlook.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.

If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex.