50 Sigmund Freud Quotes About Life and Love

1. "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

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

3. "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

4. "The goal of all life is death."

5. "The ego is not master in its own house."

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

7. "Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair."

8. "History is just new people making old mistakes."

9. "Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"

10. "A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

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

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

13. “Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.”

14. “It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”

15. “The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

1. "The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy."

2. "There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions."

3. "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

4. "The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter."

5. "The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse."

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

7. "Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love."

8. "It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand."

9. "Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

10. "A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

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

2. "We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

3. "Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."

4. "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

5. "One is very crazy when in love."

6. "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."

7. "Love is a state of temporary psychosis."

8. "Without love we fall ill."

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

10. “A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.”

11. "Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard."

12."It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love."

13. “A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

1. "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

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

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

4. "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."

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

6. "From error to error one discovers the entire truth."

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

8. "If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death."

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

10. “A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

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

2. "Time spent with cats is never wasted."

3. "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?'"

4. "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

5. "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

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

7. "Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss."