The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
quote by Arthur Adamov
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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
quote by Kenneth Tynan
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Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
quote by Theodor Reik
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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.
quote by Lawrence Durrell
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
quote by William Styron
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
quote by Sigmund Freud
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
quote by Milton R. Sapirstein
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
quote by Sigmund Freud
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
quote by Anish Kapoor
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Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
quote by Henry Miller
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The religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Sigmund Freud in The Future of an Illusion (1927)
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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.
quote by John Boyd Orr
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
quote by Sigmund Freud
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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.
quote by Lionel Trilling
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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
quote by Hubert H. Humphrey
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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.
quote by Anatole France
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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.
quote by Vincent D'Onofrio
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
quote by Paul Tillich
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Poem about Poetry - Cryptic Symbol
some poets shun the audience
their poetry are a self analysis
of neurosis and psychosis hidden
behind a field of cryptic symbols
readers who stumble onto their work
feel like walking in space where things
they have never seen circle round and
round their heads
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
quote by Joseph Heller
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