“To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.”

— David H. Levy

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next." by David H. Levy?

David H. Levy 19

Canadian astronomer 1948

David Gemmell book Legend

Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7

“So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”

Justin Cronin The Passage

Source: The Passage

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

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

“Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”

Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) French actress

As quoted in Madam Sarah (1966) by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi

“The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 232
Variant: We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner.
Source: The Gay Science (1882)

“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

“The glue of American togetherness is gone, replaced by a flimsy, fluid, and thoroughly fake unity peddled by politicians. ‘Ideas’ they call it. On the one day, it's a crusade for democracy; on the next, it's a war against racism.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

“Ilana Mercer on multiculturalism, political correctness, and more,” http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2013/jan/28/ilana-mercer-multiculturalism-political-correctnes The Washington Times (interview), January 28, 2013.
2010s, 2013

“I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney — not replace Disney — but be the next Disney.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

As quoted in BusinessWeek (23 November 1998)
1990s

“To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

David H. Levy 19

Related quotes

Related topics