#neurotic

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic. ↗

— Megan Fox

#introverted #neurotic #self-loathing

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#clothes #cute #diet #every #fit

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ↗

— Anatole France

#against #believers #certain #constructing #degree

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#confounded #days #me #neurotic #normal

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#deep #fans #just #needy #nerds

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. ↗

— William Glasser

#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#hear #i #like #neurotic #people

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day