Sara Cherrat

“It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner distress and poverty. We were surprised to discover that our first love is not directed either to another person or to ourselves, but to an imaginary ideal ego, to an image of ourselves as we would like to be. There are stranger discoveries awaiting us the more deeply we grope in the dark and the further we intrude into the secret places of the human heart.”
― Theodor Reik, Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

“The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.”
― Theodor Reik, Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

“In the U.S., the 400 richest people have as much as 185 million people, over 60 percent of the population. As absurd as that is, on a global scale, the richest 85 people have as much as 3.5 billion people, half of humanity!”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate”
― Theodor Reik, Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik