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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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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
- Dean Koontz
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
- Rollo May
The Courage to Create
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Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One
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People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
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Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
- Gayle G. Roper
Shadows on the Sand
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You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
- Sarah Dessen
What Happened to Goodbye
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I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
- Aberjhani
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
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I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
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You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
- Meg Cabot
When Lightning Strikes
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I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.
- Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Other Words for Love
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Oversensitivity isn’t a problem, it’s your strength. It simply indicates you are more human than others. You should be proud of yourself.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
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Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
- bell hooks
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
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Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
- Louise Caiola
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A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
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..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.
- Mindy Kaling
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I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
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Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
- Sanhita Baruah
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It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
- Robin Black
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
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Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
- Stephen King
The Stand
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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
- Dean Koontz
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
- Rollo May
The Courage to Create
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Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One
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People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
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Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
- Gayle G. Roper
Shadows on the Sand
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You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
- Sarah Dessen
What Happened to Goodbye
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I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
- Aberjhani
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
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You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
- Meg Cabot
When Lightning Strikes
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I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.
- Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Other Words for Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oversensitivity isn’t a problem, it’s your strength. It simply indicates you are more human than others. You should be proud of yourself.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
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Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
- bell hooks
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
- Louise Caiola
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.
- Mindy Kaling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
- Sanhita Baruah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
- Robin Black
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
- Stephen King
The Stand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
- Dean Koontz
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
- Rollo May
The Courage to Create
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.
- Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
- Gayle G. Roper
Shadows on the Sand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
- Sarah Dessen
What Happened to Goodbye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
- Aberjhani
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
- Meg Cabot
When Lightning Strikes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.
- Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Other Words for Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oversensitivity isn’t a problem, it’s your strength. It simply indicates you are more human than others. You should be proud of yourself.
- Rebecca Harlem
The Pink Cadillac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
- bell hooks
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
- Louise Caiola
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.
- Mindy Kaling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
- Sanhita Baruah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
- Robin Black
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
- Stephen King
The Stand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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