Love Quotes by Sigmund Freud
All Love quotes Sigmund Freud’s page
A trembling heart feels defenseless when love arrives, and the loss of a loved one can bring the deepest unhappiness. Freud’s lines also warn that love isn’t always deserved, and that words can lift a spirit or crush it. He even calls love a brief state of psychosis, a powerful but fragile mind.
![“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that [humans] are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful…” quote by Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/sigmund-freud-360_love_the-element-of-truth-behind-all-this-whi_1967950.jpg)
![“The commandment, 'Love thy neighbour as thyself', is the strongest defence against human aggressiveness and an excellent example of the unpsychological [expectations] of the cultural super-ego. The commandment is impossible to fulfil; such an enormous inflation of love can only lower its value…” quote by Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73b/sigmund-freud-360_character_the-commandment-love-thy-neighbour-as-th_232906.jpg)
