Thomas Merton Quotes

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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

... madness entered my veins.

I went through the process of trying to convince myself I was not ill.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

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.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

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

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Don’t be afraid.” “I hear voices,” Iggy said. “Be very afraid.

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.