The best Quotes by Erich Fromm

The best Quotes by Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the U.S.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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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.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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

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

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

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Love Relationships

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

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Love Valentine's Day

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

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I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

Kat Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You

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Love Love declerations

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Johnny Depp

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Love Laughing & Smile Breathing

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries - Season 1 Episode 6

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I can live without you. I just don't want to.

Sarah Huttinger in Rumor Has It...

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Love Valentine's Day

I can hear you, you can hear me, when we listen with our hearts.

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

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Heart Love Valentine's Day

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

I Corinthians - 13, 4-7

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Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Jodi Picoult in Second Glance

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Love Trust Valentine's Day

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet

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Love Valentine's Day Pisces ♓

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Love declerations

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Love Falling in love Valentine's Day

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Paulo Coelho

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One of the things that draws us to the 19th century is that it's far enough away to feel exotic but close enough to be approachable. We can still recognize ourselves in those people, even as we see all the ways in which our lives have diverged from theirs.

Louis Bayard - August 2019

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.

Barack Obama - Inauguration Speech, 21st January 2013

Freedom 19th Century

A mother's love is the ultimate comfort.

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Mother Mother & Daughter

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Family Parents Mother Birth

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Children & Childhood Fathers Parents Mother

If true and unconditional love exists in this world, then it has to be the love between a mother and a child.

Urvashi Rautela

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Children & Childhood Mother Mother & Daughter

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie

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Family Mother Birth

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Banksy in Wall and Piece

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Mother Mother & Daughter Mother & Son

Parker, I'm your mother. Mothers don't lie to their sons. Now go wash your hands or santa's not gonna bring you anything for christmas.

Lynette Scavo in Desperate Housewives - Season 2 Episode 19

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Mother Santa Claus Mother & Son

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Uma Thurman

There's no safer place on earth than the arms of one's mother.

Selma Lagerlöf

Mother Mother & Daughter Mother & Son

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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