Top 500 Sigmund Freud Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Sigmund Freud

2. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

— Sigmund Freud

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3. “Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.”

— Sigmund Freud

4. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

— Sigmund Freud

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5. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

6. “We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.”

— Sigmund Freud

7. “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.”

— Sigmund Freud

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8. “The goal of all life is death.”

— Sigmund Freud

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9. “Love is a state of temporary psychosis.”

— Sigmund Freud

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10. “Love and work, work and love... that’s all there is.”

— Sigmund Freud

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11. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

— Sigmund Freud

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12. “Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.”

— Sigmund Freud

13. “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”

— Sigmund Freud

14. “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

— Sigmund Freud

15. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”

— Sigmund Freud

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16. “In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

17. “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

— Sigmund Freud

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18. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”

— Sigmund Freud

19. “Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.”

— Sigmund Freud

20. “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”

— Sigmund Freud

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21. “Without love we fall ill.”

— Sigmund Freud

22. “Not all men are worthy of love.”

— Sigmund Freud

23. “From error to error one discovers the entire truth.”

— Sigmund Freud

24. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

— Sigmund Freud

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25. “There are no mistakes.”

— Sigmund Freud

26. “The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.”

— Sigmund Freud

27. “Religion is a universal obsessional neurosis.”

— Sigmund Freud

28. “Where id was, there ego shall be.”

— Sigmund Freud

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29. “It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.”

— Sigmund Freud

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30. “I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.”

— Sigmund Freud

31. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”

— Sigmund Freud

32. “The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.”

— Sigmund Freud

33. “The sexual life of adult women is a “dark continent” for psychology.”

— Sigmund Freud

34. “All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.”

— Sigmund Freud

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35. “If youth knew; if age could.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

37. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”

— Sigmund Freud

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38. “A strong egoism is a protection.”

— Sigmund Freud

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39. “Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

— Sigmund Freud

40. “I’ve been a fortunate man in life. Nothing has come easily.”

— Sigmund Freud

41. “The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.”

— Sigmund Freud

42. “There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.”

— Sigmund Freud

43. “If you can’t do it, give up!”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

45. “A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.”

— Sigmund Freud

46. “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”

— Sigmund Freud

47. “Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

— Sigmund Freud

48. “If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.”

— Sigmund Freud

49. “The madman is a dreamer awake.”

— Sigmund Freud

50. “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

— Sigmund Freud

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