Carl Jung Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Pain, Light

• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Collective Unconscious, Birth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

• The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Museums, Brain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

• Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Neurosis, Natural

• Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  Carl Jung

  Marriage, Pain, Doe

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 193, 1928.

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