Erich Fromm

Quotes

• “Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is...”
• “Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determine...”
• “Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the f...”
• “If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachmen...”
• “To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no bi...”
• “Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”
• “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
• “Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
• “In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”