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Quotes about relationships capture the complexity of connection, love, and understanding between people. They reflect both the beauty and the challenges that come with sharing our lives with others. The following collection offers insights that may resonate, comfort, or inspire reflection on the bonds we form.   ◀ Back
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Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
- Meghan O'Rourke
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What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing-I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
- David Levithan
How They Met, and Other Stories
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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
- Candace Bushnell
Sex and the City
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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Gillian Anderson
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If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
- Martha Gellhorn
Selected Letters
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You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.
- pleasefindthis
I Wrote This For You
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A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.
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We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
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He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
- W.H. Auden
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To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.
- Omar Khayyám
Rubaiyat
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If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.
- J. Rose Black
Losing My Breath
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I believe in love the verb, not the noun.
- Greg Behrendt
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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Love cannot live where there is no trust.
- Edith Hamilton
Mythology
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What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.
- Tarjei Vesaas
The Bridges
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Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. Don't you see it's a trap? If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
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Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.
- Lisa Kaniut Cobb
Down in the Valley
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
- Francois Sagan
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Marriages and relationships can be great experiences and can help a person grow and give them a chance to better themselves, whether they last or not. ... Would you consider a close relationship with a friend for several years a failure when they moved to another country and you never saw them again?
- Jasun Ether
The Beasts of Success
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Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing-I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
- David Levithan
How They Met, and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
- Candace Bushnell
Sex and the City
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Gillian Anderson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
- Martha Gellhorn
Selected Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.
- pleasefindthis
I Wrote This For You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
- W.H. Auden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.
- Omar Khayyám
Rubaiyat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.
- J. Rose Black
Losing My Breath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in love the verb, not the noun.
- Greg Behrendt
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
- Edith Hamilton
Mythology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.
- Tarjei Vesaas
The Bridges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. Don't you see it's a trap? If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.
- Lisa Kaniut Cobb
Down in the Valley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
- Francois Sagan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Marriages and relationships can be great experiences and can help a person grow and give them a chance to better themselves, whether they last or not. ... Would you consider a close relationship with a friend for several years a failure when they moved to another country and you never saw them again?
- Jasun Ether
The Beasts of Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing-I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.
- David Levithan
How They Met, and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
- Candace Bushnell
Sex and the City
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Gillian Anderson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
- Martha Gellhorn
Selected Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.
- pleasefindthis
I Wrote This For You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
- W.H. Auden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.
- Omar Khayyám
Rubaiyat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.
- J. Rose Black
Losing My Breath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in love the verb, not the noun.
- Greg Behrendt
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
- Edith Hamilton
Mythology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.
- Tarjei Vesaas
The Bridges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. Don't you see it's a trap? If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.
- Lisa Kaniut Cobb
Down in the Valley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
- Francois Sagan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Marriages and relationships can be great experiences and can help a person grow and give them a chance to better themselves, whether they last or not. ... Would you consider a close relationship with a friend for several years a failure when they moved to another country and you never saw them again?
- Jasun Ether
The Beasts of Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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