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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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Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
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....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
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There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
- D. H. Lawrence
Sons and lovers + Lady Chatterley's lover
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When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
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It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
- Amy Bloom
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When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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I have an attraction to strange
and unusual things.
I find them interesting,
spellbinding,
utterly fascinating.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
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In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.
- Helen Quist Milligan
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Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
- Stella Oladiran
Winning Formulas
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Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.
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Maybe it's impossible to find everything you want in one person. Maybe everyone in your life gives you certain things you need. And your friends give you the rest of what you can't get from your boyfriend.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
- Martha Gellhorn
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How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
- Rabih Alameddine
I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
- John Adams
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I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Ashes to Ashes
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Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again.
- Sarah Dunn
Secrets to Happiness
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But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
- Kathryn Stockett
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She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.
- Richard Finney
Kicky-Wicky
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As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.
- Barbara Bush
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Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.
- Kristen Roupenian
You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
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In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen.

Illuminators, on the other hand, have a persistent curiosity about other people. They have been trained or have trained themselves in the craft of understanding others. They know what to look for and how to ask the right questions at the right time. They shine the brightness of their care on people and make them feel bigger, deeper, respected, lit up.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.
- C.J. English
Affairytale
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In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The Vision
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Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
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There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
- D. H. Lawrence
Sons and lovers + Lady Chatterley's lover
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When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
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It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
- Amy Bloom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have an attraction to strange
and unusual things.
I find them interesting,
spellbinding,
utterly fascinating.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.
- Helen Quist Milligan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
- Stella Oladiran
Winning Formulas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe it's impossible to find everything you want in one person. Maybe everyone in your life gives you certain things you need. And your friends give you the rest of what you can't get from your boyfriend.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
- Martha Gellhorn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
- Rabih Alameddine
I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
- John Adams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Ashes to Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again.
- Sarah Dunn
Secrets to Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
- Kathryn Stockett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.
- Richard Finney
Kicky-Wicky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.
- Barbara Bush
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.
- Kristen Roupenian
You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen.

Illuminators, on the other hand, have a persistent curiosity about other people. They have been trained or have trained themselves in the craft of understanding others. They know what to look for and how to ask the right questions at the right time. They shine the brightness of their care on people and make them feel bigger, deeper, respected, lit up.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.
- C.J. English
Affairytale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The Vision
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Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
....whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
- D. H. Lawrence
Sons and lovers + Lady Chatterley's lover
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Twenties Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
- Amy Bloom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have an attraction to strange
and unusual things.
I find them interesting,
spellbinding,
utterly fascinating.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.
- Helen Quist Milligan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
- Stella Oladiran
Winning Formulas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe it's impossible to find everything you want in one person. Maybe everyone in your life gives you certain things you need. And your friends give you the rest of what you can't get from your boyfriend.
- Susane Colasanti
Take Me There
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
- Martha Gellhorn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
- Rabih Alameddine
I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
- John Adams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Ashes to Ashes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again.
- Sarah Dunn
Secrets to Happiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
- Kathryn Stockett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.
- Richard Finney
Kicky-Wicky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.
- Barbara Bush
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.
- Kristen Roupenian
You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In every crowd there are Diminishers and there are Illuminators. Diminishers make people feel small and unseen. They see other people as things to be used, not as persons to be befriended. They stereotype and ignore. They are so involved with themselves that other people are just not on their radar screen.

Illuminators, on the other hand, have a persistent curiosity about other people. They have been trained or have trained themselves in the craft of understanding others. They know what to look for and how to ask the right questions at the right time. They shine the brightness of their care on people and make them feel bigger, deeper, respected, lit up.
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.
- C.J. English
Affairytale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The Vision
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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