Sigmund Freud Quotes

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.