Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

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

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.