#neurotic

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#fiction #his #nailed #neurotic

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#i #neurotic #trying

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#comes #complain #defend #her #illness

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#confounded #days #me #neurotic #normal

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#devil #felt #i #loved #neurotic

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

— William Glasser

#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#doing #feel #i #i feel #idea

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#i #know #made #neurotic #out

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#back #between #days #exclusive #flying