The Meaning of Anxiety (1950)

Not to recognize the daimonic itself turns out to be daimonic, it makes us accomplices on the side of the destructive possession.

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic...

[The daimonic] needs to be directed and channeled - consciousness can integrate the daimonic, make it personal... - the daimonic always has its biological base…

Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

In spite of increasing production and comfort, man loses more and more the sense of self, feels that his life is meaningless, even though such a feeling is lar…

First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't; If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't. But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,…