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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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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear
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Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.
- Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart
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When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
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And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
- Andrea Gibson
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I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
- Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
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Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.
- Adam S. McHugh
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
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She is an able negotiator and a strong ally." Pickering said, as his eyes caressed her lovely face.  He noticed both her arms were wrapped tightly around Victor's, and that she looked up at him with such commitment that it made his cynical view of love soften.  Reminding him bittersweetly of how he had felt once, a very long time ago.
- Barbara Sontheimer
Victor's Blessing
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'

The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.

Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'

Didn't you mean them?'

At the moment.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
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People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
- Emily Giffin
Something Blue
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To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do
anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs and hustle to make
money because of women. We drive fancy cars because of women. We dress nice, put on cologne, get haircuts and try to look all shiny and new for you. We do all of this because the more our game is stepped up, the more of you we get. You’re the ultimate prize to us.
- Steve Harvey
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
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Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.
Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
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Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
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There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.
- Gerald Morris
The Quest of the Fair Unknown
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I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.
- Kim Gruenenfelder
A Total Waste of Makeup
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To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.
- Vironika Tugaleva
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She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.
- Kate Chopin
The Awakening
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Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear
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Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.
- Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart
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When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
- Andrea Gibson
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I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
- Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.
- Adam S. McHugh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She is an able negotiator and a strong ally." Pickering said, as his eyes caressed her lovely face.  He noticed both her arms were wrapped tightly around Victor's, and that she looked up at him with such commitment that it made his cynical view of love soften.  Reminding him bittersweetly of how he had felt once, a very long time ago.
- Barbara Sontheimer
Victor's Blessing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'

The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.

Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'

Didn't you mean them?'

At the moment.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
- Emily Giffin
Something Blue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do
anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs and hustle to make
money because of women. We drive fancy cars because of women. We dress nice, put on cologne, get haircuts and try to look all shiny and new for you. We do all of this because the more our game is stepped up, the more of you we get. You’re the ultimate prize to us.
- Steve Harvey
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.
Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.
- Gerald Morris
The Quest of the Fair Unknown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.
- Kim Gruenenfelder
A Total Waste of Makeup
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.
- Vironika Tugaleva
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She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.
- Kate Chopin
The Awakening
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Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.
- Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
- Andrea Gibson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
- Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.
- Adam S. McHugh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She is an able negotiator and a strong ally." Pickering said, as his eyes caressed her lovely face.  He noticed both her arms were wrapped tightly around Victor's, and that she looked up at him with such commitment that it made his cynical view of love soften.  Reminding him bittersweetly of how he had felt once, a very long time ago.
- Barbara Sontheimer
Victor's Blessing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'

The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.

Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'

Didn't you mean them?'

At the moment.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
- Emily Giffin
Something Blue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do
anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs and hustle to make
money because of women. We drive fancy cars because of women. We dress nice, put on cologne, get haircuts and try to look all shiny and new for you. We do all of this because the more our game is stepped up, the more of you we get. You’re the ultimate prize to us.
- Steve Harvey
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.
Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.
- Gerald Morris
The Quest of the Fair Unknown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.
- Kim Gruenenfelder
A Total Waste of Makeup
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.
- Vironika Tugaleva
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.
- Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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