Quotes from Sigmund Freud

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Christmas is the alcoholidays

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

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

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

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

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

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

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

The goal of all life is death.

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

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

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

I have yet not been able to answer the great question that has never been answered. 'What does a woman want?

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.