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
Sometimes it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
- Tayari Jones
An American Marriage
Alright, good night,” he said, his words a little slurred. “But before I pass out, I want you to know that you’re the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.
- Erin McCarthy
Hard and Fast
If I had made another choice that night, would
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?
- Katie Hall-May
Puck's Legacy
Make a list of all the imperfect people you’ve known in your life who have had love. Who have had romantic partners and best friends and jobs you could only ever dream of. Make a list of all the people who are conventionally unattractive and spiritually adrift and imperfect and all the things each one of them had despite being that way. Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect to be good enough.
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness of it all welled up inside of her. It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close.
- Rachel Machacek
The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
Don't be ridiculous,' said Maya, 'You can't fail at a relationship. That's like getting off of a roller coaster and saying you failed because the ride is over. Things end. That doesn't mean the experience wasn't worth it.
- Hazel Hayes
Out of Love
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.
- Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
You want the fairy tale."
"I want a chance at it.
"I want a chance at it.
- Rachel Gibson
I'm In No Mood For Love
God is even in a single parent household.
- Karen Salmansohn
Even God Is Single, So Stop Giving Me Such a Hard Time: (So Stop Giving Me a Hard Time
When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
- Daniel Handler
Why We Broke Up
Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
- Cecily von Ziegesar
You Know You Love Me
It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.
- Rory Power
Wilder Girls
Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
- Alison Goodman
Eona: The Last Dragoneye
I had a dream about you last night. We were plug sockets in the bedroom. We saw only a short part of their day, but we knew everything of it.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
- Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
- Joyce Rachelle
You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
- Nick Hornby
About a Boy
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
- Rachel Cohn
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Sometimes it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
- Tayari Jones
An American Marriage
Alright, good night,” he said, his words a little slurred. “But before I pass out, I want you to know that you’re the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.
- Erin McCarthy
Hard and Fast
If I had made another choice that night, would
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?
- Katie Hall-May
Puck's Legacy
Make a list of all the imperfect people you’ve known in your life who have had love. Who have had romantic partners and best friends and jobs you could only ever dream of. Make a list of all the people who are conventionally unattractive and spiritually adrift and imperfect and all the things each one of them had despite being that way. Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect to be good enough.
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness of it all welled up inside of her. It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close.
- Rachel Machacek
The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
Don't be ridiculous,' said Maya, 'You can't fail at a relationship. That's like getting off of a roller coaster and saying you failed because the ride is over. Things end. That doesn't mean the experience wasn't worth it.
- Hazel Hayes
Out of Love
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.
- Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
You want the fairy tale."
"I want a chance at it.
"I want a chance at it.
- Rachel Gibson
I'm In No Mood For Love
God is even in a single parent household.
- Karen Salmansohn
Even God Is Single, So Stop Giving Me Such a Hard Time: (So Stop Giving Me a Hard Time
When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
- Daniel Handler
Why We Broke Up
Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
- Cecily von Ziegesar
You Know You Love Me
It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.
- Rory Power
Wilder Girls
Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
- Alison Goodman
Eona: The Last Dragoneye
I had a dream about you last night. We were plug sockets in the bedroom. We saw only a short part of their day, but we knew everything of it.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
- Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
- Joyce Rachelle
You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
- Nick Hornby
About a Boy
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
- Rachel Cohn
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Sometimes it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
- Tayari Jones
An American Marriage
Alright, good night,” he said, his words a little slurred. “But before I pass out, I want you to know that you’re the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.
- Erin McCarthy
Hard and Fast
If I had made another choice that night, would
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?
- Katie Hall-May
Puck's Legacy
Make a list of all the imperfect people you’ve known in your life who have had love. Who have had romantic partners and best friends and jobs you could only ever dream of. Make a list of all the people who are conventionally unattractive and spiritually adrift and imperfect and all the things each one of them had despite being that way. Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect to be good enough.
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness of it all welled up inside of her. It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.
- Jennifer E. Smith
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close.
- Rachel Machacek
The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
Don't be ridiculous,' said Maya, 'You can't fail at a relationship. That's like getting off of a roller coaster and saying you failed because the ride is over. Things end. That doesn't mean the experience wasn't worth it.
- Hazel Hayes
Out of Love
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.
- Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
You want the fairy tale."
"I want a chance at it.
"I want a chance at it.
- Rachel Gibson
I'm In No Mood For Love
God is even in a single parent household.
- Karen Salmansohn
Even God Is Single, So Stop Giving Me Such a Hard Time: (So Stop Giving Me a Hard Time
When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
- Daniel Handler
Why We Broke Up
Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
- Cecily von Ziegesar
You Know You Love Me
It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.
- Rory Power
Wilder Girls
Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
- Alison Goodman
Eona: The Last Dragoneye
I had a dream about you last night. We were plug sockets in the bedroom. We saw only a short part of their day, but we knew everything of it.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.
- Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
- Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
- Joyce Rachelle
You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
- Nick Hornby
About a Boy
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
- Rachel Cohn
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List