Sigmund Freud Quotes

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

Protect me from what I want.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

I struggle with control.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

There's definitely times when I'm tempted to look at the future, like any of us are. I'd be lying if that wasn't the case. But you have to reel back in and stay in the present.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

My ego has been in check for a long time.

A lot of people do impulsive things. They just go with their moves. I used to do that. Once I was able to control my mind, I was able to control my actions.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.