Quotes by Neurosis A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways. Daniel Pinchbeck neurosis may culture A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. David Brin neurosis bizarre behavior the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. Elsa Maxwell moats neurosis reality The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. Erich Fromm neurosis fighting children Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days." Fleur Adcock neurosis littles way The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses. Florence King neurosis nice way our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses. Fran Drescher compatibility neurosis You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. Frank Langella neurosis spite acting National isolation breeds national neurosis. Hubert H. Humphrey neurosis isolation To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. James Dean neurosis actors thinking A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature. James Hollis true-nature neurosis What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness. Jean-Paul Sartre neurosis hero writing The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. Jean-Paul Sartre neurosis characteristics natural I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature. Jean-Paul Sartre neurosis literature action Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did. Jean-Paul Sartre neurosis atmosphere able In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people. Jim Piddock neurosis people television I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses. Jim Shaw aspergers neurosis schizophrenia I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor. Joanne Woodward neurosis sense-of-humor important I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise. Joe Satriani neurosis inspiring funny Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. Judith Viorst neurosis golden growing-up «12345»
