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
Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes. But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had. It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven could unravel and separate over a thing like that.
But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.
But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands nor baffle him with classically female sudden-onset hysterical behavior.
- Valerie Frankel
The Girlfriend Curse
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
- Arnold Haultain
Hints for Lovers
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
- Sándor Márai
Embers
The person you love has all kinds of seeds in her: joy, suffering, and anger. If you water her anger, then in just five minutes you can bring the anger out in her. If you know how to water the seeds of her compassion, joy, and understanding, then these seeds will blossom. If you recognize the good seeds in her, you are watering her self-confidence and she will become the source of her own happiness as well as yours.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Don’t invest in someone based on how much you like them, invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama
No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.
- Daniel Tammet
Born on a Blue Day
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
- Francine du Plessix Gray
Lovers and Tyrants
Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.
- Amit Ray
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
- Harold Bloom
How to Read and Why
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
- Nathaniel Branden
There is no one so cruel as those closest to you.
- Andrew Davenport
If you abandon yourself in order to be in a relationship, you cannot be in a relationship
- Tina Packer
Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.
"But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´"
The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning.
"But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´"
The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.
- Alice Hoffman
Local Girls
I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.
- Cricket Rohman
Wanted: An Honest Man
Relationships that are merely based on practicality or utility will ultimately make us feel lonely.
- Tatjana Ostojic
Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.
- Mansi Soni
Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes. But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had. It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven could unravel and separate over a thing like that.
But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.
But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands nor baffle him with classically female sudden-onset hysterical behavior.
- Valerie Frankel
The Girlfriend Curse
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
- Arnold Haultain
Hints for Lovers
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
- Sándor Márai
Embers
The person you love has all kinds of seeds in her: joy, suffering, and anger. If you water her anger, then in just five minutes you can bring the anger out in her. If you know how to water the seeds of her compassion, joy, and understanding, then these seeds will blossom. If you recognize the good seeds in her, you are watering her self-confidence and she will become the source of her own happiness as well as yours.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Don’t invest in someone based on how much you like them, invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama
No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.
- Daniel Tammet
Born on a Blue Day
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
- Francine du Plessix Gray
Lovers and Tyrants
Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.
- Amit Ray
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
- Harold Bloom
How to Read and Why
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
- Nathaniel Branden
There is no one so cruel as those closest to you.
- Andrew Davenport
If you abandon yourself in order to be in a relationship, you cannot be in a relationship
- Tina Packer
Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.
"But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´"
The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning.
"But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´"
The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.
- Alice Hoffman
Local Girls
I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.
- Cricket Rohman
Wanted: An Honest Man
Relationships that are merely based on practicality or utility will ultimately make us feel lonely.
- Tatjana Ostojic
Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.
- Mansi Soni
Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes. But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had. It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven could unravel and separate over a thing like that.
But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.
But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands nor baffle him with classically female sudden-onset hysterical behavior.
- Valerie Frankel
The Girlfriend Curse
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
- Arnold Haultain
Hints for Lovers
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
- Sándor Márai
Embers
The person you love has all kinds of seeds in her: joy, suffering, and anger. If you water her anger, then in just five minutes you can bring the anger out in her. If you know how to water the seeds of her compassion, joy, and understanding, then these seeds will blossom. If you recognize the good seeds in her, you are watering her self-confidence and she will become the source of her own happiness as well as yours.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Don’t invest in someone based on how much you like them, invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.
- Matthew Hussey
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
- Carl Sagan
Contact
Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
- Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama
No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.
- Daniel Tammet
Born on a Blue Day
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
- Francine du Plessix Gray
Lovers and Tyrants
Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.
- Amit Ray
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
- Harold Bloom
How to Read and Why
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
- Nathaniel Branden
There is no one so cruel as those closest to you.
- Andrew Davenport
If you abandon yourself in order to be in a relationship, you cannot be in a relationship
- Tina Packer
Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.
"But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´"
The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning.
"But," I demur, "it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a jealous and paranoid and pushy wife.´"
The Betty Lady rips open a cell phone statement with a nail file and, without looking up at me, says, "Let me tell you something, honey. In my experience? The only thing they care about is what they see in the mirror each morning and WINNING...or their perception of winning.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.
- Alice Hoffman
Local Girls
I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.
- Cricket Rohman
Wanted: An Honest Man
Relationships that are merely based on practicality or utility will ultimately make us feel lonely.
- Tatjana Ostojic
Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.
- Mansi Soni