We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
Sigmund FreudA belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund FreudWe are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Sigmund Freud