The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"

The goal of all life is death

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.