Top 64 Freud Love Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Freud Love

#1. Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

Pete Wentz

#2. It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

Sigmund Freud

#5. The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Sigmund Freud

#6. Love and work ... work and love, that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud

#7. Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Sigmund Freud

#8. Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Sigmund Freud

#9. A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

Sigmund Freud

#10. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

#11. Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Sigmund Freud

#12. Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

Sigmund Freud

#13. You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

Sigmund Freud

#14. All that matters is love and work.

Sigmund Freud

#15. I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

Michael Sheen

#16. Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Sigmund Freud

#17. By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

Sigmund Freud

#18. My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sigmund Freud

#19. It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Sigmund Freud

#20. Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.

David Elkind

#21. Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#22. What is fundamental to happiness is the ability to love and work; that is, to be able to invest in something other than yourself." Sigmund Freud

Iyathurai Aingaratheepan

#23. When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Sigmund Freud

#24. The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

Sigmund Freud

#25. Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

Sigmund Freud

#26. I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

Lucian Freud

#27. The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Sigmund Freud

#28. A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Sigmund Freud

#29. We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Iris Murdoch

#30. A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Sigmund Freud

#31. Without love we fall ill.

Sigmund Freud

#32. It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

Sigmund Freud

#33. I shake my head at his largesse, and I frown as a scene from Tess crosses my mind: the strawberry scene. It evokes my dream. To hell with Dr. Flynn - Freud would have a field day - and then he'd probably die trying to deal with Fifty Shades.

E.L. James

#34. In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

Marya Mannes

#35. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

#36. Freud, in effect, had declared that all spiritual things were merely symbols of the flesh. In the delivery room, for the first time, it had seemed to me that he had gotten it exactly the wrong way round. Our flesh was the symbol. It was the love that was real. Why,

Andrew Klavan

#37. I love the way people dress at the races. I love people dressed to the nines during the day. That formal kind of daywear doesn't really exist anymore except at the races. Also I love the tuffs and the working classes being so hand in glove and relying on each other to make the thing happen.

Bella Freud

#38. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

Sigmund Freud

#39. Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

Betty Friedan

#40. If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit

Clement Freud

#41. Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

#42. One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud

#43. I thought of my mother ( ... ). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

Scott Spencer

#44. Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

Sigmund Freud

#45. Not all men are worthy of love.

Sigmund Freud

#46. Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Sigmund Freud

#47. Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

Sigmund Freud

#48. When Freud was asked what a normal person should be able to do well, he is reputed to have said, Love and work.

Jonathan Haidt

#49. A wonderful book ... Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

Esther Freud

#50. We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

#51. In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Sigmund Freud

#52. He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Theodor Reik

#53. He wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

Oliver Sacks

#54. It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

Sigmund Freud

#55. All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Sigmund Freud

#56. Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Sigmund Freud

#57. Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Mortimer Adler