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“I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.”

Years Wells May Character Faces Born Lines Inspire Anxiety Models This Life Opera Portraits Fatigue Neurotic Harlem Vermeer

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.”

“Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.”

Persons Doubt Creation Authority Anxiety Tradition Certainty Existential Castles Neurotic Certitude

Author:Paul Tillich

“When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.”

Kids Young Personality Anxiety Filled Sensitive Shy Neurotic

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.”

Feels Knowing Mystery Anxiety Glad Mess Uncertainty Horizon Not Knowing Neurotic

Author:Leslie Jamison

“The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”

Half Anxiety Drowning Neurotic Social Anxiety

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“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.”

Mean Certain Position Anxiety Doctors Over It Get Over Neurotic Benign Plight Dizzy Vertigo

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

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

Anxiety Accidents Neurotic

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin