Relationships Quotes

When people have different ideas about which of these four modes of interacting applies to a current...

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a promine...

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserv...

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - a...

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon...

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of...

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, ev...

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered f...

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relati...

For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.But then he forgot all those promises...

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One...

When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret wi...

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-relia...

The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a deli...

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by ...

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years o...

The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul --As long as it'...

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned t...

There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making ...

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the w...

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be wor...

Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside a...

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...

But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...

Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had m...

But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to...

Relationships are built in the silences.

When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot o...

The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very lit...

You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It...

Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to d...

An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between ...

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days...

But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one k...

We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In th...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a m...

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a m...

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth dr...

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and n...

What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh...

The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn’t a problemB...

Bloody men are like bloody buses —You wait for about a yearAnd as soon as one approaches your stopTw...

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that wome...

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean...

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves ...

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish th...

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been...

Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" w...

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devi...

She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of ...

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relatio...

"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships."

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every...

There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We ta...

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapp...

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back ...

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all ot...

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth lik...

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "l...

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have row...

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are neare...

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoye...

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet ...

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and devia...

we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are loo...

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with on...

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had an...

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my a...

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with...

Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spo...

I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be...

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...