773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

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

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

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

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

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