Zitate von Eric Berne

„Wenn Hamlet plötzlich anfängt, Zeilen aus einem ganz anderen Drama zu sprechen, dann muß auch Ophelia ihren Text ändern, um dem Ganzen einen Sinn zu geben, und die Vorstellung verläuft danach in ganz anderen Bahnen. Es könnte passieren, daß die beiden dann gemeinsam fortgehen, anstatt ständig um das Schloss herumzuschleichen. Das mag vielleicht ein schlechtes Stück sein, vermutlich ist es aber ein besseres Leben“

—  Eric Berne

Was sagen Sie, nachdem Sie Guten Tag gesagt haben? Fischer, Frankfurt am Mai 1983, ISBN 3-596-42192-7, Seite 53
"Original englisch: "If Hamlet begins to use lines from Abie's Irish Rose, Ophelia has to change her lines, too, in order to make sense of it, and the whole performance will proceed differently. The two of them might then take off together instead of skulking around the castle — a bad play, but probably a better life." - What do you say after you say hello? The Psychology of Human Destiny. Bantam Books 1973. p. 36

„A healthy person goes "Yes," "No," and "Whoopee!" An unhealthy person goes "Yes, but," "No, but," and "No whoopee."“

—  Eric Berne

Quoted in They Shoot Managers, Don't They? http://books.google.com/books?id=iXkq-lFFJpcC&lpg=PP1&dq=They%20shoot%20managers%2C%20don't%20they&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false by Terry L. Paulson, pg. 3

„The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.“

—  Eric Berne, buch Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relations (1964)

„Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.“

—  Eric Berne, buch Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

Quelle: Games People Play

„We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.“

—  Eric Berne

„The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours“

—  Eric Berne, buch Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

Quelle: Games People Play

„A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses but talks about what he’ll do if he wins and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins but knows what he’ll do if he loses.“

—  Eric Berne

„Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.“

—  Eric Berne

What Do You Say After You Say Hello? (1973)

„No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.“

—  Eric Berne

Quoted in a review of Berne's book Sex in Human Loving (1963), "Talks on Sex by the Gamesman" http://books.google.com/books?id=jVMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA16&dq=LIFE%20Dec%2018%2C%201970&pg=RA1-PA7#v=onepage&q=berne&f=false by David Reuben, M.D., Life, Vol. 69, No. 25, 18 December 1970.