Defense Quote by Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or…

— Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

— Sigmund Freud

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

— Sigmund Freud

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

— Lydia Millet

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid…

— Henri Nouwen

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that…

— Marcel Proust

“Whenever we give our hearts in love, the burden of our vulnerability grows. We risk being rebuffed or embarrassed or inadequate. Beyond these things,…

— Forrest Church

There is no love without suffering.

— Arielle Dombasle

“The sorrow of losing what we love is nothing to the torment of having it present but denied us.”

— Martin Boyd

“At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel…

— Paulo Coelho

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

— Judy Tatelbaum

“It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end…

— George Eliot