(14 quotes found)
“Kansas is a state of the Union, but it is also a state of mind, a neurotic condition, a psychological phase, a symptom, indeed, something undreamed of in your philosophy, an inferiority complex against the tricks and manners of plutocracy -- social, political and economic.”
William Allen White
“"My door is always open-bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.”
Robert F. Six
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
Anais Nin
“The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
Georges Bataille
“A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work”
Karl Abraham
“Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.”
Connie Willis
“It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at "full speed ahead."”
William Osler
“He's impatient with her for being lazy. He says she's neurotic, a drag.”
Hazel Rowley
“All currency is neurotic currency.”
Norman O. Brown
“They are incredibly active and have to be worked. If you don't, they become neurotic and they're smart enough to make you neurotic too.”
Stanley Coren
