I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.
I'm a paranoid person. I really am.
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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.
Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.
I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff.
And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.
I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
There was a warm and encouraging environment at home. My self-loathing and neuroticism are not because of my upbringing.
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
I'm pretty neurotic.
Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.
I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.
Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
