If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

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