Skip to content

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

— Sigmund Freud Studies on Hysteria (1895)

Another quote →

Topics

Fate

More quotes by Sigmund Freud

Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Dora : An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)

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

The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Group Psychology And The Analysis Of The Ego (1921)

All Sigmund Freud quotes →

You may also like

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

John Lewis

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Sigmund Freud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.