Erich Fromm Quotes & Sayings

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”

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

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

“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.”

“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.”