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Erich Fromm Quotes about Love

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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Love, Romantic, Moments

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Love, Pain, Disappointment

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.139, Open Road Media

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Love, Life, Faith

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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, Life, Attachment

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

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

Love, Life, Philosophical

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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

Love, Life, Romantic

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Love, Family, Happiness

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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 also of little love.

Love, Romantic, Faith

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

Love, Two, Secret

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

Love, Family, Marriage

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Love, Family, Happiness

Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.337, Routledge

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

Love, Romantic, Judging

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

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, Hope, Expectations

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.10, Open Road Media

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Love, Achievement, Realization

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.104, Open Road Media

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.

Love, Good Morning, Dream

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

Love, Girl, Fashion

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Love, Attitude, Character

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

Love, Wall, Integrity

ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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

Love, Smile, Two

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Love, Strong, Lying

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.

Love, Life, Two

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.166, Open Road Media

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

Love, Lying, Power

"The Art of Loving".

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

Love, Mean, Sacrifice

Erich Fromm (1997). “Love, Sexuality, and Matriarchy: About Gender”, Fromm International

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

Love, Mean, Caring

I need you because I love you.

Love, Romantic, Disappointment

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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