Sigmund Freud Quotes

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

I'm a lunatic.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

All I want to be is normally insane.

I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.

I don't think anyone's normal.

Mujib [Rahman] talks at random, depending on his mood and the disorders of his sick mind.

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.