Sigmund Freud on Love

"It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love."

"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."

"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations."

"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness."

"We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love."

"Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love."

"A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer."

"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."

"Como fica forte uma pessoa quando está segura de ser amada." /"Como é ousado aquele que tem a certeza de ser amado.""How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved." Freud, S. . Letter from Sigmund Freud to Martha Bernays, June 27, 1882. Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939, 10-12"