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

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

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

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

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.