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I have three
phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as
slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go
to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
1903-1968, American Actress
The anguish of
the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint.
The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle.
Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one
gasps and the other one gives.
-- Georges Bataille
1897-1962, French Novelist,
Critic
If you get
hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's
going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
-- Richard Brautigan
1935-1984, American Artist
Oh the nerves,
the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the
little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
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A certain
degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive,
especially to a psychologist.
-- Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician
- Founder of Psychoanalysis
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
1856-1939, Austrian Physician
- Founder of Psychoanalysis
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
1856-1939, Austrian Physician
- Founder of Psychoanalysis
The
expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may,
I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the
neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right
whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe,
constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict
themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over
long periods throughout life.
-- Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician
- Founder of Psychoanalysis
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