Art Quote by Theodor Reik

“It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner…

— Theodor Reik

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

— Theodor Reik

“The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come…

— Theodor Reik

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

— Theodor Reik

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement.…

— Theodor Reik

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

— Theodor Reik

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

— Theodor Reik

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

— Theodor Reik

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang…

— Theodor Reik

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

— Theodor Reik

“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.”

— Theodor Reik

“He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate”

— Theodor Reik