Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

I feel like a crazy person all the time, and I feel like people are watching me, and I feel paranoid.

So I'm not naturally happy all the time, all upbeat. People that know me will tell you that.

I'm actually shy in person.

I'm probably a little shyer than people imagine.

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.