Home » Quote » C.G. Jung » „Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering“ „Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering“ — C.G. Jung Tags:Suffering Related quotes „Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.“ — C.G. Jung „About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.“ — C.G. Jung „So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.“ — Paulo Coelho „The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.“ — Eckhart Tolle „Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.“ — Anaïs Nin „Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.“ — Herodotus „Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.“ — Jane Austen