#neurosis

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#history #life #my life #neurosis #story

Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through – I mean complex for someone with the soft brain of a tomato merchant; for me the premises are obvious and the conclusions dire and inescapable – threatened to crush me, and I was ultimately forced to abandon the whole undertaking. By way of recovery, I spent the rest of the summer immersed in a Freudian meditation on some choice tabloids. The mysterious lives of celebrities make for challenging induction. The reasoning process involves navigating many gaps in our knowledge of them. What is certain is that under the iceberg of glitz and glamor lie neurotic, depraved individuals with bizarre habits and hobbies, people who think they’re above the law. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #history #law #neurosis #funny

National isolation breeds national neurosis. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#isolation #national #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

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

— Theodor Reik

#love #neurosis #them #these #without

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#know #neurosis #secret #you

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inability #neurosis #tolerate

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#importance #nervous-breakdowns #neurosis #perspective #self-perception

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism