Quotes - Fleud

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

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

“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?”


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

“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. ”

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

“Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”

“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.”

“Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.”

“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”

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

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

“public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.”

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

“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”

“Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.”

“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”