Sigmund Freud on Burnout Quotes

"The goal of all life is death."

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

"Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in motion."

"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."

"Anxiety is the expectation of danger."

"Where id is, there shall ego be."

"The psychical apparatus is intolerant of unpleasure; it must ward it off at all costs."

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it."

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

"Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact that they are missing the person they love."

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

"The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world."

"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement."

"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."

"The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."

"The pleasure principle... draws up the programme of life's purpose."

"How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved."

"The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt."

"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

"The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions."

"Anxiety is a reaction to a situation of danger."

"What a progressive step it was when people began to complain of their unhappiness."

"Repression is not a defense mechanism that is present from the very beginning."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature."

"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average."