Sigmund Freud Quotes

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Without love we fall ill.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.