Sigmund Freud Quotes

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.

Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.