Erich Fromm Quotes

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

Love is the substance of human survival.

Not to love is to cease to live.

Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard