Theodor Adorno Quotes on Relationships
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'Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.'
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'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.'
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'He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.'
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'Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'
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'Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.'
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'Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.'
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'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.'
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'There is no love that is not an echo.'