On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love Quotes

“Thus we may perhaps be forced to become reconciled to the idea that it is quite impossible to adjust the claims of the sexual instinct to the demands of civilization; that in consequence of its cultural development renunciation and suffering, as well as the danger of extinction in the remotest future, cannot be avoided by the human race.”
― Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love