Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

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