I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.


letter to Oskar Pfister, 3 June 1910. Quoted in H. Meng and E. Freud (eds.), Psycho-Analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister (1963)

Sigmund Freud Quotes

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in...

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in...

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in...

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in...