Mignon McLaughlin Neurotic Quotations

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

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

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

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.