773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;.

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that’s when they are really making some progress.

If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

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?’

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only person better you should be, this is who you are now.

The words for much that remains mute in me.

A father’s death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man’s life.

The goal of all life is death.

When we share – that is poetry in the prose of life.