Quotes by Erich Fromm about Love

Erich Fromm Psychologist, psychoanalyst and humanistic philosopher

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love