8 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Relationships

Theodor Adorno quotes on relationships

20. 'Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.'

21. 'Every undistorted relationship, perhaps indeed the conciliation that is part of organic life itself, is a gift. He who through consequential logic becomes incapable of it, makes himself a thing and freezes.'

33. 'He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.'

54. 'Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'

57. 'Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.'

58. 'Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.'

104. 'The only decent marriage would be one allowing each partner to lead an independent life, in which, instead of a fusion derived from an enforced community of economic interest, both freely accepted mutual responsibility.'

117. 'There is no love that is not an echo.'