#neurosis

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#new-york-city #new-york-city

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really

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

#every #forcing #him #life #long

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

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#know #neurosis #secret #you

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

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