--- title: "30 May Quotes By Sigmund Freud" description: "30 May quotes by Sigmund Freud. Plus more from Sigmund Freud and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/sigmund-freud-360_dream_plaque-was-placed-on-6-may-1977-at-belle_1447013.jpg" --- > [Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/plaque-was-placed-on-6-may-1977-at-bellevue-a-house-on-the-slopes-of/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/sigmund-freud-360_dream_plaque-was-placed-on-6-may-1977-at-belle_1447013.jpg) > [In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/in-the-last-analysis-the-entire-field-of-psychology-may-reduce-to/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/sigmund-freud-360_analysis_in-the-last-analysis-the-entire-field-of_2998997.jpg) > [When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/when-the-wayfarer-whistles-in-the-dark-he-may-be-disavowing-his/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0f/sigmund-freud-360_dark_when-the-wayfarer-whistles-in-the-dark-h_3135593.jpg) > [The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-psychical-whatever-its-nature-may-be-is-itself-unconscious/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/442/sigmund-freud-360_consciousness_the-psychical-whatever-its-nature-may-be_348597.jpg) > [The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-effect-of-the-consolations-of-religion-may-be-compared-to-that-of/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sigmund-freud-360_consolation_the-effect-of-the-consolations-of-religi_1371153.jpg) > [The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-time-comes-when-each-of-us-has-to-give-up-as-illusions-the/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fed/sigmund-freud-360_difficulty_the-time-comes-when-each-of-us-has-to-gi_1628404.jpg) > [The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-conscious-mind-may-be-compared-to-a-fountain-playing-in-the-sun/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/sigmund-freud-360_conscious_the-conscious-mind-may-be-compared-to-a_558417.jpg) > [We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/we-may-say-that-hysteria-is-a-caricature-of-an-artistic-creation-a/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efe/sigmund-freud-360_art_we-may-say-that-hysteria-is-a-caricature_131144.jpg) > [A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/a-strong-egoism-is-a-protection-against-disease-but-in-the-last/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ca/sigmund-freud-360_consequence_a-strong-egoism-is-a-protection-against_875898.jpg) > [I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/i-like-to-avoid-concessions-to-faint-heartedness-one-can-never-tell/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/193/sigmund-freud-360_concessions_i-like-to-avoid-concessions-to-faint-hea_1774088.jpg) > [A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/a-poor-girl-may-have-an-illusion-that-a-prince-will-come-and-fetch/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/sigmund-freud-360_age_a-poor-girl-may-have-an-illusion-that-a_522392.jpg) > [The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-voice-of-the-intellect-is-soft-one-but-it-does-not-rest-until-it/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fd/sigmund-freud-360_being-optimistic_the-voice-of-the-intellect-is-soft-one-b_54820.jpg) > [There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/there-is-no-likelihood-of-our-being-able-to-suppress-humanity-s/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/sigmund-freud-360_able_there-is-no-likelihood-of-our-being-able_1201744.jpg) > [The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-expectation-that-every-neurotic-phenomenon-can-be-cured-may-i/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a85/sigmund-freud-360_belief_the-expectation-that-every-neurotic-phen_2296142.jpg) > [The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-adoption-of-the-required-attitude-of-mind-towards-ideas-that-seem/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/sigmund-freud-360_abandonment_the-adoption-of-the-required-attitude-of_1500046.jpg) > [All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/all-elongated-objects-such-as-sticks-tree-trunks-and-umbrellas-the/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/sigmund-freud-360_boxes_all-elongated-objects-such-as-sticks-tre_1382106.jpg) > [Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/just-as-a-satisfaction-of-instinct-spells-happiness-for-us-so-severe/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a9/sigmund-freud-360_happiness_just-as-a-satisfaction-of-instinct-spell_1243777.jpg) > [Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/against-the-suffering-which-may-come-upon-one-from-human/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/sigmund-freud-360_aloof_against-the-suffering-which-may-come-upo_38643.jpg) > [We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/we-find-a-place-for-what-we-lose-although-we-know-that-after-such-a/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/sigmund-freud-360_change_we-find-a-place-for-what-we-lose-althoug_1586941.jpg) > [Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/taboo-restrictions-are-distinct-from-religious-or-moral-prohibitions/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/sigmund-freud-360_abstinence_taboo-restrictions-are-distinct-from-rel_1910905.jpg) > [If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/if-all-the-evidence-put-forward-for-the-authenticity-of-religious/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f7/sigmund-freud-360_able_if-all-the-evidence-put-forward-for-the_1714498.jpg) > [Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/our-knowledge-of-the-historical-worth-of-certain-religious-doctrines/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30b/sigmund-freud-360_analytics_our-knowledge-of-the-historical-worth-of_1236569.jpg) > [Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/psycho-analysis-has-taught-us-that-a-boy-s-earliest-choice-of-objects/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/sigmund-freud-360_analysis_psycho-analysis-has-taught-us-that-a-boy_2593978.jpg) > [Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/our-possibilities-of-happiness-are-already-restricted-by-our/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d1/sigmund-freud-360_anxiety_our-possibilities-of-happiness-are-alrea_432742.jpg) > [The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-goal-towards-which-the-pleasure-principle-impels-us-of-becoming/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/sigmund-freud-360_becoming_the-goal-towards-which-the-pleasure-prin_2450567.jpg) > [Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/our-unconscious-then-does-not-believe-in-its-own-death-it-behaves-as/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/sigmund-freud-360_art_our-unconscious-then-does-not-believe-in_2933307.jpg) > [The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-study-of-dreams-may-be-considered-the-most-trustworthy-method-of/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/sigmund-freud-360_accidents_the-study-of-dreams-may-be-considered-th_935608.jpg) > [Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/obsessional-prohibitions-are-extremely-liable-to-displacement-they/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/112/sigmund-freud-360_displacement_obsessional-prohibitions-are-extremely-l_1453962.jpg) > [Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/human-beings-are-funny-they-long-to-be-with-the-person-they-love-but-2/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/247/sigmund-freud-360_affection_human-beings-are-funny-they-long-to-be-w_1502012.jpg) > [We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/we-may-insist-as-often-as-we-like-that-man-s-intellect-is-powerless/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6db/sigmund-freud-360_comparison_we-may-insist-as-often-as-we-like-that-m_1824372.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Sigmund Freud > [Anatomy is destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/anatomy-is-destiny/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/woe-to-you-my-princess-when-i-come-i-will-kiss-you-quite-red-and-feed/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/i-take-up-the-standpoint-that-the-tendency-to-aggression-is-an-innate/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/ko-postavlja-pitanje-o-smislu-zivota-s-njegovim-libidom-nije-nesto-u/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/when-it-comes-to-the-small-matters-in-life-one-should-think-long-and/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/we-like-to-forget-that-in-fact-everything-in-our-life-is-chance-from/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/we-should-picture-the-instrument-that-carries-our-mental-functioning/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-religions-of-mankind-must-be-classed-among-the-mass-delusions-of/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/it-seems-to-be-my-fate-to-discover-only-the-obvious-that-children/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-first-requisite-of-civilization-is-that-of-justice/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/actually-the-substitution-of-the-reality-principle-for-the-pleasure/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/dreams-are-often-most-profound-when-they-seem-the-most-crazy/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/against-the-suffering-which-may-come-upon-one-from-human/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/there-is-to-my-mind-no-doubt-that-the-concept-of-beautiful-had-its/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) > [The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-voice-of-the-intellect-is-soft-one-but-it-does-not-rest-until-it/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/sigmund-freud/#itemlist", "name": "30 May Quotes By Sigmund Freud", "numberOfItems": 30, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sigmund Freud" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/plaque-was-placed-on-6-may-1977-at-bellevue-a-house-on-the-slopes-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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