Erich Fromm Love Quotes

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What did Erich Fromm say about Love?

Erich Fromm has written many quotes about Love. E.g.,

  • 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.
  • Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
  • In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

What are the top most famous Love quotes by Erich Fromm?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Love by Erich Fromm.

  • 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.
  • Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
  • In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
  • Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
  • 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.
  • Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
  • 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.
  • Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
  • 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.
  • 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.