Sigmund Freud Quotes

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.