Charlotte Rampling Quotes

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

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.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

I'm kind of OCD.

My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

I'm a compulsive everything.

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

I think I am mad sometimes.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex