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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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love one another, but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
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There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.
- Hilary Winston
My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
- Eartha Kitt
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Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.
- Robert Bloch
Psycho
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Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
- Roman Payne
Rooftop Soliloquy
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Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.
- Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
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Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
- Rob Bell
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
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Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.
- April Sinclair
I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel
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The bank of love is never bankrupt.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.
- D.L. Maddox
The Dog Walker: The Prequel
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It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.
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Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.
- Stephan Labossiere
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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.
- Camille Paglia
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It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing
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All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Bloody men are like bloody buses —
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You’re trying to read the destinations,
You haven’t much time to decide.

If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you’ll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.
- Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
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Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Use and Misuse of Children
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When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed.
- Michael Stein
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He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.
- Nenia Campbell
Armed and Dangerous
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We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.
- Deb Caletti
The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
- John Christopher
The Prince in Waiting
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You're walking funny," Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl.

"You're just jealous." Brenna pushed through the door into DarkRiver's business HQ.

Lucy made a mournful face. "Yes, I am. Goddamn but your man is hot. And he smiles at you! I've seen him do it, even if no one believes me.
- Nalini Singh
Caressed by Ice
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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension
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I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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love one another, but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.
- Hilary Winston
My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
- Eartha Kitt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.
- Robert Bloch
Psycho
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
- Roman Payne
Rooftop Soliloquy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.
- Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
- Rob Bell
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.
- April Sinclair
I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The bank of love is never bankrupt.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.
- D.L. Maddox
The Dog Walker: The Prequel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.
- Stephan Labossiere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.
- Camille Paglia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bloody men are like bloody buses —
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You’re trying to read the destinations,
You haven’t much time to decide.

If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you’ll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.
- Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Use and Misuse of Children
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed.
- Michael Stein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.
- Nenia Campbell
Armed and Dangerous
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.
- Deb Caletti
The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
- John Christopher
The Prince in Waiting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're walking funny," Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl.

"You're just jealous." Brenna pushed through the door into DarkRiver's business HQ.

Lucy made a mournful face. "Yes, I am. Goddamn but your man is hot. And he smiles at you! I've seen him do it, even if no one believes me.
- Nalini Singh
Caressed by Ice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
love one another, but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.
- Hilary Winston
My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
- Eartha Kitt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.
- Robert Bloch
Psycho
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
- Roman Payne
Rooftop Soliloquy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.
- Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
- Rob Bell
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.
- April Sinclair
I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The bank of love is never bankrupt.
- Steve Maraboli
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.
- D.L. Maddox
The Dog Walker: The Prequel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.
- Stephan Labossiere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.
- Camille Paglia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
- George Gissing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bloody men are like bloody buses —
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You’re trying to read the destinations,
You haven’t much time to decide.

If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you’ll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.
- Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Use and Misuse of Children
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed.
- Michael Stein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.
- Nenia Campbell
Armed and Dangerous
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.
- Deb Caletti
The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
- John Christopher
The Prince in Waiting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're walking funny," Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl.

"You're just jealous." Brenna pushed through the door into DarkRiver's business HQ.

Lucy made a mournful face. "Yes, I am. Goddamn but your man is hot. And he smiles at you! I've seen him do it, even if no one believes me.
- Nalini Singh
Caressed by Ice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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