Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
Reply #1126 - November 02, 2011, 08:04 AM
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored !- Aldous Huxley
Topic: Quotes you would consider for your signature