Top Neurosis Quotes
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel Trilling
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
All Neurosis Quotes
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
Anish Kapoor 
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich 
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud 
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Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller 
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz 
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Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik 
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