647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.