773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Chance, fate, nurturing an inner preparedness for change and direction--how can one disentangle them?

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for father's protection.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Now you too have reached your sixtieth birthday, while I, six years older, am approaching the limit of life and may soon expect to see the end of the fifth act of this rather incomprehensible and not always amusing comedy.

We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.

Gambling is in complex ways about self-sabotage, a love of losing.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconcious.