It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.
Tags: suffering, love, defenseless

Other Quotes by "Sigmund Freud"

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Tags: royal, road, mind, knowledge, dreams
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Tags: oneself, exercise, being, good, wisdom
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Tags: itself, may, whatever, nature
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Tags: satisfaction, sense, degree, high, happiness
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Tags: first, civilization, justice
View More by "Sigmund Freud"