“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”

“Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”

“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.”

“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration... Existential frustration is neither pathological or pathogenic.”

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".”

“...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...”