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

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.