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
The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.
- Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset
There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
- Jennifer O'Neill
The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess
I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.
- Christine Feehan
Safe Harbor
Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope.
- Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White
I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
- Nick Hornby
About a Boy
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
- Galt Niederhoffer
The Romantics
We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
- Ann Aguirre
Killbox
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
- Daniel Taylor
Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories
When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....
- Alice Mattison
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: A Literary Collection of Interconnected Lives in a New Haven Community
A woman's weapon is her tongue.
- Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
- Elizabeth Elliot
The Mark of a Man
Not every marital union is going to be a meaningful and fulfilling experience.
Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
- Tatjana Ostojic
She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love
- Jessica Anya Blau
Drinking Closer to Home
Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner's flaws.
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.
- Robertson Davies
He is not the same person as when we
met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
- Ann Aguirre
Aftermath
Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.
His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World
The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.
- Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset
There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
- Jennifer O'Neill
The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess
I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.
- Christine Feehan
Safe Harbor
Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope.
- Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White
I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
- Nick Hornby
About a Boy
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
- Galt Niederhoffer
The Romantics
We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
- Ann Aguirre
Killbox
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
- Daniel Taylor
Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories
When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....
- Alice Mattison
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: A Literary Collection of Interconnected Lives in a New Haven Community
A woman's weapon is her tongue.
- Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
- Elizabeth Elliot
The Mark of a Man
Not every marital union is going to be a meaningful and fulfilling experience.
Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
- Tatjana Ostojic
She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love
- Jessica Anya Blau
Drinking Closer to Home
Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner's flaws.
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.
- Robertson Davies
He is not the same person as when we
met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
- Ann Aguirre
Aftermath
Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.
His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World
The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.
- Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset
There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
- Jennifer O'Neill
The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess
I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.
- Christine Feehan
Safe Harbor
Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope.
- Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White
I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
- Nick Hornby
About a Boy
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
- Galt Niederhoffer
The Romantics
We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
- Ann Aguirre
Killbox
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
- Daniel Taylor
Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories
When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....
- Alice Mattison
Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: A Literary Collection of Interconnected Lives in a New Haven Community
A woman's weapon is her tongue.
- Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
- Elizabeth Elliot
The Mark of a Man
Not every marital union is going to be a meaningful and fulfilling experience.
Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
- Tatjana Ostojic
She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love
- Jessica Anya Blau
Drinking Closer to Home
Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner's flaws.
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.
- Robertson Davies
He is not the same person as when we
met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
- Ann Aguirre
Aftermath
Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.
His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World