Quotes by Sigmund Freud

About Sigmund Freud:

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology in the same year and became an affiliated professor (professor extraordinarius) in 1902.
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Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

Sigmund Freud

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Sigmund Freud

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and uncertainties. In no other scientific field would it be n...

Sigmund Freud

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Sigmund Freud

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is ...

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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.

Sigmund Freud

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Sigmund Freud

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Sigmund Freud

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

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Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

Sigmund Freud

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But o...

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Everyone owes nature a death.

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Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

Sigmund Freud

Author Bio

  • NameSigmund Freud
  • DescriptionAustrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
  • AliasesSigismund Schlomo Freud; Freud
  • BornMay 6, 1856
  • DiedSeptember 23, 1939
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionPsychoanalyst; Neurologist; Science Writer; Essayist
  • AwardsGoethe Prize