QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
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. Select Another Topic
Before a sunk-cost fallacy creeps into the body of our expectations, we must disentangle a clear line in the merry-go-round of our desires and bring to light the real-world evidence in the cropland of our relationships. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)
Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.
- Diana Peterfreund
Tap & Gown
Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.
- Jack R. Rose
To me, the thing about friendship that makes it so singular is that it’s a relationship that’s central to our identity in that it doesn’t necessarily benefit us in any tangible way. It’s a relationship we don’t have to pursue – if we decide to stop being friends one day, nothing will happen, no one’s there to legislate or adjudicate it. It’s two people who every day choose to keep it going, and in that way it’s very powerful because it’s one you choose to work on, and you choose to without any agreement; it’s an unspoken bond.
- Hanya Yanagihara
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
“Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.”
Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
- John L. Lund
How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
- Budd Schulberg
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren
A Walk on the Wild Side
Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
- Belle Aurora
Love Thy Neighbour
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
- Marian Keyes
Watermelon
When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
- Henry Cloud
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.
- Donna Lynn Hope
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.
- Yehuda Berg
The Kabbalah Book of Sex: And Other Mysteries of the Universe
Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
- Pastor Jerry L. Lewis
What God Can't Do: Keys to Prayer Power, Self Awareness, Love, Growth, Freedom, and Joy
Women will cry a river about wanting Mr. Dependable and then go off to fuck Mr. Exciting.
- Rollo Tomassi
The Rational Male
Politics is a moving target with no bullseye of truth, breaking up more families than uniting them.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
A love triangle is a threesome delayed.
I had a dream about you last night... You tried to propose with a digital ceramic heater.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Every advantage is temporary.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Before a sunk-cost fallacy creeps into the body of our expectations, we must disentangle a clear line in the merry-go-round of our desires and bring to light the real-world evidence in the cropland of our relationships. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)
Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.
- Diana Peterfreund
Tap & Gown
Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.
- Jack R. Rose
To me, the thing about friendship that makes it so singular is that it’s a relationship that’s central to our identity in that it doesn’t necessarily benefit us in any tangible way. It’s a relationship we don’t have to pursue – if we decide to stop being friends one day, nothing will happen, no one’s there to legislate or adjudicate it. It’s two people who every day choose to keep it going, and in that way it’s very powerful because it’s one you choose to work on, and you choose to without any agreement; it’s an unspoken bond.
- Hanya Yanagihara
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
“Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.”
Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
- John L. Lund
How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
- Budd Schulberg
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren
A Walk on the Wild Side
Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
- Belle Aurora
Love Thy Neighbour
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
- Marian Keyes
Watermelon
When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
- Henry Cloud
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.
- Donna Lynn Hope
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.
- Yehuda Berg
The Kabbalah Book of Sex: And Other Mysteries of the Universe
Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
- Pastor Jerry L. Lewis
What God Can't Do: Keys to Prayer Power, Self Awareness, Love, Growth, Freedom, and Joy
Women will cry a river about wanting Mr. Dependable and then go off to fuck Mr. Exciting.
- Rollo Tomassi
The Rational Male
Politics is a moving target with no bullseye of truth, breaking up more families than uniting them.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
A love triangle is a threesome delayed.
I had a dream about you last night... You tried to propose with a digital ceramic heater.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Every advantage is temporary.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Before a sunk-cost fallacy creeps into the body of our expectations, we must disentangle a clear line in the merry-go-round of our desires and bring to light the real-world evidence in the cropland of our relationships. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)
Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me.
- Diana Peterfreund
Tap & Gown
Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.
- Jack R. Rose
To me, the thing about friendship that makes it so singular is that it’s a relationship that’s central to our identity in that it doesn’t necessarily benefit us in any tangible way. It’s a relationship we don’t have to pursue – if we decide to stop being friends one day, nothing will happen, no one’s there to legislate or adjudicate it. It’s two people who every day choose to keep it going, and in that way it’s very powerful because it’s one you choose to work on, and you choose to without any agreement; it’s an unspoken bond.
- Hanya Yanagihara
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
“Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.”
Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
- John L. Lund
How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
- Budd Schulberg
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren
A Walk on the Wild Side
Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.
- Belle Aurora
Love Thy Neighbour
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.
- Marian Keyes
Watermelon
When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
- May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
- Henry Cloud
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.
- Donna Lynn Hope
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.
- Yehuda Berg
The Kabbalah Book of Sex: And Other Mysteries of the Universe
Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
- Pastor Jerry L. Lewis
What God Can't Do: Keys to Prayer Power, Self Awareness, Love, Growth, Freedom, and Joy
Women will cry a river about wanting Mr. Dependable and then go off to fuck Mr. Exciting.
- Rollo Tomassi
The Rational Male
Politics is a moving target with no bullseye of truth, breaking up more families than uniting them.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
A love triangle is a threesome delayed.
I had a dream about you last night... You tried to propose with a digital ceramic heater.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Every advantage is temporary.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer