The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says,… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement.… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.” — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
