Sigmund Freud quotes.

“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”

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

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

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

“He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

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

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

“If youth knew; if age could.”

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

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

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. ”

“From error to error one discovers the entire truth.”

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

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

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”

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

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

“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?'”