Cyril Connolly Quotes

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

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.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

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.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

I hate that word dysfunction.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

Washington is riddled with unstable people who are either depressed or make other people depressed.

Depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.