Sigmund Freud Quotes

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

Any expectation is what pain is.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Not being happy really is my fear.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.