Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Amis

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Pema Chodron

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Pema Chodron

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

Jim Shaw

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Elyn Saks

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Alexis Korner

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.