The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

- Robert Bly

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

- Robert Bly

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

- Robert Bly

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

- Robert Bly