Neurotic Quotes

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. - William Glasser

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. - Hans Eysenck

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

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. - Marcel Proust

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. - Sigmund Freud

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

The numerous convictions of ... fathers and day-care workers based on memories fabricated by neurotics and therapists, or on coaxed-out lurid fantasies of pre-rational children, testify to the destructive effects false knowledge can have, particularly when it cloaks itself in pseudoscientific jargon. - Bruce Thornton

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. - Alfred Adler