No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic runs ragged even sitting still.
~TQG
The neurotic's mountain and molehill are equivalent in size.
~TQG
Overcast with drizzles - O! we neurotics welcome the riddance of that pesky sunshine.
~TQG
Don't offer a neurotic happiness - he'll never take it. There's a bout of misery keeping him perfectly content.
~TQG
No matter how much the neurotic accomplished yesterday - even if he finished - he must start anew today.
~TQG
If something smells fishy, the neurotic knows everything is going just right.
~TQG
A constant din of alarms sound in the neurotic's head - only silence indicates something gone wrong.
~TQG
The neurotic calls in sick to more than just work - he's sprung ill to Life, as well.
~TQG
Neurotics, when they hit bottom, don't stop falling.
~TQG
A neurotic's problems are invisible to others - and to himself, as well.
~TQG
A neurotic whose problems are solved was never a neurotic to begin with.
~TQG
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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, The Bell Jar
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
~Mortimer Collins
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
~Charles Johnson
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic runs ragged even sitting still.
~TQG
The neurotic's mountain and molehill are equivalent in size.
~TQG
Overcast with drizzles - O! we neurotics welcome the riddance of that pesky sunshine.
~TQG
Don't offer a neurotic happiness - he'll never take it. There's a bout of misery keeping him perfectly content.
~TQG
No matter how much the neurotic accomplished yesterday - even if he finished - he must start anew today.
~TQG
If something smells fishy, the neurotic knows everything is going just right.
~TQG
A constant din of alarms sound in the neurotic's head - only silence indicates something gone wrong.
~TQG
The neurotic calls in sick to more than just work - he's sprung ill to Life, as well.
~TQG
Neurotics, when they hit bottom, don't stop falling.
~TQG
A neurotic's problems are invisible to others - and to himself, as well.
~TQG
A neurotic whose problems are solved was never a neurotic to begin with.
~TQG
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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, The Bell Jar
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
~Mortimer Collins
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
~Charles Johnson
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