#neurosis

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#new-york-city #new-york-city

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#birth #body #brain #complicated #defect

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

#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#hollywood #kind #lead #neurosis #obsession

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. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#every #forcing #him #life #long

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. ↗

— Laura Linney

#anxiety #fear #just #neurosis #suitcase

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. ↗

— Henry Miller

#guilt #knowledge #neurosis #same #sin

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

#destruction #fear #first #gods #hatred

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #neurosis #non-being #way

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#love #neurosis #them #these #without