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
If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
- Marlen Komar
Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
- Andrew Murray
Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret.
- Donna Lynn Hope
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.
- Wilkie Collins
No Name
There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
- Donna Lynn Hope
We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.
- Anthony Ravenscroft
Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Comeback Season
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
- Wendy Shalit
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
- Alastair Reynolds
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
- George Gurley
George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
May the light I shine, be a reflection of those whose spirit I carry.
- Stephen Q Gray
One Voice Of A People
....in the midst of the grimness, isn't there an opportunity here?....Can we learn to slow down?...forge a new way of living? Factories are closed and there's no smoke belching out into the air... Roads are empty...Skies are clear...Pollution is way down...Is there a way to keep it this way when we get back to normal? Can we learn from this calamity to limit the way we damage the earth?
- Emily Steinberg
Trust is rebuilt through a thousand small acts of honesty, not one big apology.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
If you have to hide it, it’s already harming the relationship.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
The best apology is a changed behavior.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Healing is not forgetting — it is choosing a healthier future.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
There’s a thin line between love and hate.
- Unknown
So many of the animals are sensitive, exquisitely attuned to the emotional state of those around them. They can pick up the smallest frequencies of distress or anger, and it can make them act in ways that clueless keepers disapprovingly call "erratic." It's not erratic, though, to be influenced by the mood of someone close to you. Humans do it all the time.
- Emma Sloley
The Island of Last Things
Most relationships break when one loves blindly and the other enjoys that power. Blind love looks pure, but it often ends in pain. You know love isn’t about losing yourself for someone, it’s about being seen, valued, and loved back the same way. It's about remembering that you deserve love too.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
You can’t give an addict a plan because we can’t follow a plan—not even our own plans. (Especially not our own plans.) Until the miracle of recovery happens, we addicts only ever have one plan: Use.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that someday in the future a magical person would show up, fall in love with me, and fix everything.
Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Now I keep my circle small… not because I hate people now, but because most people don’t deserve my time, and I am tired of pretending, explaining, fixing, and forgiving for the sake of maintaining relationships. I have realized tiny circles hurt less, feel more real, and leave space for people who actually belong.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
- Marlen Komar
Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
- Andrew Murray
Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret.
- Donna Lynn Hope
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.
- Wilkie Collins
No Name
There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
- Donna Lynn Hope
We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.
- Anthony Ravenscroft
Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Comeback Season
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
- Wendy Shalit
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
- Alastair Reynolds
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
- George Gurley
George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
May the light I shine, be a reflection of those whose spirit I carry.
- Stephen Q Gray
One Voice Of A People
....in the midst of the grimness, isn't there an opportunity here?....Can we learn to slow down?...forge a new way of living? Factories are closed and there's no smoke belching out into the air... Roads are empty...Skies are clear...Pollution is way down...Is there a way to keep it this way when we get back to normal? Can we learn from this calamity to limit the way we damage the earth?
- Emily Steinberg
Trust is rebuilt through a thousand small acts of honesty, not one big apology.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
If you have to hide it, it’s already harming the relationship.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
The best apology is a changed behavior.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Healing is not forgetting — it is choosing a healthier future.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
There’s a thin line between love and hate.
- Unknown
So many of the animals are sensitive, exquisitely attuned to the emotional state of those around them. They can pick up the smallest frequencies of distress or anger, and it can make them act in ways that clueless keepers disapprovingly call "erratic." It's not erratic, though, to be influenced by the mood of someone close to you. Humans do it all the time.
- Emma Sloley
The Island of Last Things
Most relationships break when one loves blindly and the other enjoys that power. Blind love looks pure, but it often ends in pain. You know love isn’t about losing yourself for someone, it’s about being seen, valued, and loved back the same way. It's about remembering that you deserve love too.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
You can’t give an addict a plan because we can’t follow a plan—not even our own plans. (Especially not our own plans.) Until the miracle of recovery happens, we addicts only ever have one plan: Use.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that someday in the future a magical person would show up, fall in love with me, and fix everything.
Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Now I keep my circle small… not because I hate people now, but because most people don’t deserve my time, and I am tired of pretending, explaining, fixing, and forgiving for the sake of maintaining relationships. I have realized tiny circles hurt less, feel more real, and leave space for people who actually belong.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.
- Marlen Komar
Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
- Andrew Murray
Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret.
- Donna Lynn Hope
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.
- Wilkie Collins
No Name
There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
- Donna Lynn Hope
We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead.
- Anthony Ravenscroft
Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Comeback Season
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
- Wendy Shalit
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.
- Alastair Reynolds
I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
- George Gurley
George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship
May the light I shine, be a reflection of those whose spirit I carry.
- Stephen Q Gray
One Voice Of A People
....in the midst of the grimness, isn't there an opportunity here?....Can we learn to slow down?...forge a new way of living? Factories are closed and there's no smoke belching out into the air... Roads are empty...Skies are clear...Pollution is way down...Is there a way to keep it this way when we get back to normal? Can we learn from this calamity to limit the way we damage the earth?
- Emily Steinberg
Trust is rebuilt through a thousand small acts of honesty, not one big apology.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
If you have to hide it, it’s already harming the relationship.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
The best apology is a changed behavior.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Healing is not forgetting — it is choosing a healthier future.
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
There’s a thin line between love and hate.
- Unknown
So many of the animals are sensitive, exquisitely attuned to the emotional state of those around them. They can pick up the smallest frequencies of distress or anger, and it can make them act in ways that clueless keepers disapprovingly call "erratic." It's not erratic, though, to be influenced by the mood of someone close to you. Humans do it all the time.
- Emma Sloley
The Island of Last Things
Most relationships break when one loves blindly and the other enjoys that power. Blind love looks pure, but it often ends in pain. You know love isn’t about losing yourself for someone, it’s about being seen, valued, and loved back the same way. It's about remembering that you deserve love too.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
You can’t give an addict a plan because we can’t follow a plan—not even our own plans. (Especially not our own plans.) Until the miracle of recovery happens, we addicts only ever have one plan: Use.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that someday in the future a magical person would show up, fall in love with me, and fix everything.
Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
Nobody would be showing up now.
There would be no fixing of anything.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Now I keep my circle small… not because I hate people now, but because most people don’t deserve my time, and I am tired of pretending, explaining, fixing, and forgiving for the sake of maintaining relationships. I have realized tiny circles hurt less, feel more real, and leave space for people who actually belong.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote