#neurosis

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#destruction #fear #first #gods #hatred

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #neurosis #non-being #way

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

Education, like neurosis, begins at home. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#begins #education #home #like #neurosis

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#being #i #i think #instead #involved

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. ↗

— William Styron

#always #any #been #good #good writing

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inability #neurosis #tolerate

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis