773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

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

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

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

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.