John Bowlby

"What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self."

- John Bowlby

"The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved."

- John Bowlby

"For to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."

- John Bowlby