- “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
- “The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.”
- “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
- “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
- “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
- “No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
- “Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.”
- “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does a woman want?”
- “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
- “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
- “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
- “The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.”
- “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”
- “Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. ”
- “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
- “Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.”
- “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”
- “Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.”
- “A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
- “In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
- “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
- “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
- “Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
- “Time spent with cats is never wasted”.
- “He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
- “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
- “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
- “The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
- “Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions”.
Never Give Up -Henry Chester Gellis
May 12, 2024
