Sigmund Freud Quotes

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.