Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able t….

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis.

National isolation breeds national neurosis..

The more neurosis the more wisdom..

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning..

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being..

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor,….

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion str….

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary..

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the appr….

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them..

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else..

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis wh….

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any….

The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigm….