Suffering Quotes by Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But…

— Sigmund Freud

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have…

— Sigmund Freud

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their…

— Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved…

— Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love…

— Sigmund Freud

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness…

— Sigmund Freud

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it…

— Sigmund Freud

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements…

— Sigmund Freud

Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through…

— Sigmund Freud

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us…

— Sigmund Freud

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other…

— Sigmund Freud

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,…

— Sigmund Freud

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may…

— Sigmund Freud

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness…

— Sigmund Freud

“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach…

— Sigmund Freud

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order…

— Sigmund Freud