Sigmund Freud Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Desire, Presses

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Creativity, Imagination

• Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Desire

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

• Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Desire

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Powerful, Men, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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