The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.