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
You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
I was confused.
- Jasmine Mas
Psycho Devils
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
- bell hooks
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
- Louise Caiola
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.
- Mindy Kaling
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
- Sanhita Baruah
I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
- Robin Black
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
- Stephen King
The Stand
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.
- Morrie Schwartz
You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.
- Jamie Weise
When you've been around as long as me, Lucy, you'll know that there are three types of sex... One - brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two - bedroom sex. Then number three - hallway sex, when you pass each other in the hallway and say 'Fuck you.'" - Lockie
- Kathy Lette
To Love, Honour and Betray
So you’re right, you don’t need me fighting your battles. But if you’ll let me, I’d like to be standing beside you as you fight them.
- Lynette Noni
The Prison Healer
This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.
- Henry Cloud
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known
Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
I was confused.
- Jasmine Mas
Psycho Devils
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
- bell hooks
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
- Louise Caiola
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.
- Mindy Kaling
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
- Sanhita Baruah
I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
- Robin Black
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
- Stephen King
The Stand
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.
- Morrie Schwartz
You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.
- Jamie Weise
When you've been around as long as me, Lucy, you'll know that there are three types of sex... One - brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two - bedroom sex. Then number three - hallway sex, when you pass each other in the hallway and say 'Fuck you.'" - Lockie
- Kathy Lette
To Love, Honour and Betray
So you’re right, you don’t need me fighting your battles. But if you’ll let me, I’d like to be standing beside you as you fight them.
- Lynette Noni
The Prison Healer
This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.
- Henry Cloud
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known
Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
I was confused.
- Jasmine Mas
Psycho Devils
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
- bell hooks
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
- Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm.
- Louise Caiola
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.
- Mindy Kaling
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.
- Sanhita Baruah
I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
- Robin Black
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
- Stephen King
The Stand
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.
- Morrie Schwartz
You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.
- Jamie Weise
When you've been around as long as me, Lucy, you'll know that there are three types of sex... One - brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two - bedroom sex. Then number three - hallway sex, when you pass each other in the hallway and say 'Fuck you.'" - Lockie
- Kathy Lette
To Love, Honour and Betray
So you’re right, you don’t need me fighting your battles. But if you’ll let me, I’d like to be standing beside you as you fight them.
- Lynette Noni
The Prison Healer
This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.
- Henry Cloud
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known
Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.