Sigmund Freud Quotes

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

There is no accounting for human beings.

What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Everything human is pathetic

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Everybody is as unstable as water.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance