Quote by Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it,

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

Other quotes by Sigmund Freud

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud

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Dreams
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. – Sigmund Freud

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Psychology
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Mental Illness
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – Susan Sontag

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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. – Proverb

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Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble. – Author Unknown, c.1922

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I have been a stranger in a strange land. – Bible

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Just like yoga, skipping provides exercise for the body, mind, and spirit. – “Skipper” Kim Corbin, founder of iSkip.com

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