Romantic Quotes - Love Quotes
Erich Fromm
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.
- By Erich Fromm , on Love
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
- By Erich Fromm , on Weakness
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.
- By Erich Fromm , on Love
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- By Erich Fromm , on 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.
- By Erich Fromm , on Life
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.
- By Erich Fromm , on
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 birth in our lifetime.
- By Erich Fromm , on
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
- By Erich Fromm , on
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- By Erich Fromm , on All About Love
