Logo
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

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Happiness
Author
Sigmund Freud
Read Quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Reality
Author
Sigmund Freud
Read Quote

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Psychiatry
Author
Sigmund Freud
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Mental Illness
category

There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

Category:
Mental Illness

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Mental Illness

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

Category:
Mental Illness

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Mental Illness

Random Quotes

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Happiness

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the publics whipsawing stages of acceptance. – Ron Fournier

Category:
Anger

Thats all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. – Hugh Jackman

Category:
Nature

The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness. – Isuna Hasekura

Category:
Nostalgia