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
Do you hear how the sand sings?
- Laura Esquivel
Swift as Desire
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
- Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves
I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.
- Charles Yu
Sorry Please Thank You
If you really love someone. You wouldn't hide them. You would be proud to let the whole world know that you have feelings for that special someone. If I got asked who do I love. I would straight up say the name. Just imagine how special that person would feel to know that you aren't afraid or embarrassed to let everyone know that person means a lot to you. However, sometimes its understandable especially when you have your friends or family against it. Which to me shouldn't matter because it's your life and we only live once. Even if it doesn't work out, we grow from our own experiences, right?
The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.
- Brian MacLearn
The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.
- Mark Epstein
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
- Author-Poet Aberjhani
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.
- William Trevor
A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily
- Deborah McKinlay
The View from Here
Your relationship with yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Forbidden things— my God, I’m drawn to them like a moth to a flame.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.
- Michael DiMarco
Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do for Love and How to Avoid Them
It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.
- Eknath Easwaran
The End of Sorrow
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
- Sue Grafton
J is for Judgment
It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.
- Steven L. Peck
A Short Stay in Hell
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone."
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
- Jet Mykles
She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.
- Peter G. Nogel
There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work out. It knows when to say yes. It knows when to say no. It knows when to wait. It knows when something has finished. It knows when something has started. It knows when we have a responsibility to another person. It knows when the ties are untied. It will not betray us or another.
We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people.
- Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
Poe is missing out on love. Because he's afraid. Afraid to go the distance. Afraid to fully let someone into all the crap we have to live with. I know what it's like to have that fear. But that fear didn't stop the scary shit from happening.
- Rachael Lippincott
Five Feet Apart
I am simply a complicated girl
Mesmerized by mystery
Enchanted with shadows
Intrigued by glitter and gray in each of us
A girl fascinated with word-play;
Paradoxes, ironies, conundrums
In love with adventure and curious about the world
A girl who feels and dreams deeply
Loves passionately
Lives recklessly
But about all else, I am a girl insanely in love with you!
You are my greatest inspiration!
Mesmerized by mystery
Enchanted with shadows
Intrigued by glitter and gray in each of us
A girl fascinated with word-play;
Paradoxes, ironies, conundrums
In love with adventure and curious about the world
A girl who feels and dreams deeply
Loves passionately
Lives recklessly
But about all else, I am a girl insanely in love with you!
You are my greatest inspiration!
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.
- Lori Jenessa Nelson
Do you hear how the sand sings?
- Laura Esquivel
Swift as Desire
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
- Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves
I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.
- Charles Yu
Sorry Please Thank You
If you really love someone. You wouldn't hide them. You would be proud to let the whole world know that you have feelings for that special someone. If I got asked who do I love. I would straight up say the name. Just imagine how special that person would feel to know that you aren't afraid or embarrassed to let everyone know that person means a lot to you. However, sometimes its understandable especially when you have your friends or family against it. Which to me shouldn't matter because it's your life and we only live once. Even if it doesn't work out, we grow from our own experiences, right?
The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.
- Brian MacLearn
The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.
- Mark Epstein
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
- Author-Poet Aberjhani
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.
- William Trevor
A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily
- Deborah McKinlay
The View from Here
Your relationship with yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Forbidden things— my God, I’m drawn to them like a moth to a flame.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.
- Michael DiMarco
Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do for Love and How to Avoid Them
It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.
- Eknath Easwaran
The End of Sorrow
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
- Sue Grafton
J is for Judgment
It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.
- Steven L. Peck
A Short Stay in Hell
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone."
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
- Jet Mykles
She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.
- Peter G. Nogel
There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work out. It knows when to say yes. It knows when to say no. It knows when to wait. It knows when something has finished. It knows when something has started. It knows when we have a responsibility to another person. It knows when the ties are untied. It will not betray us or another.
We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people.
- Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
Poe is missing out on love. Because he's afraid. Afraid to go the distance. Afraid to fully let someone into all the crap we have to live with. I know what it's like to have that fear. But that fear didn't stop the scary shit from happening.
- Rachael Lippincott
Five Feet Apart
I am simply a complicated girl
Mesmerized by mystery
Enchanted with shadows
Intrigued by glitter and gray in each of us
A girl fascinated with word-play;
Paradoxes, ironies, conundrums
In love with adventure and curious about the world
A girl who feels and dreams deeply
Loves passionately
Lives recklessly
But about all else, I am a girl insanely in love with you!
You are my greatest inspiration!
Mesmerized by mystery
Enchanted with shadows
Intrigued by glitter and gray in each of us
A girl fascinated with word-play;
Paradoxes, ironies, conundrums
In love with adventure and curious about the world
A girl who feels and dreams deeply
Loves passionately
Lives recklessly
But about all else, I am a girl insanely in love with you!
You are my greatest inspiration!
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.
- Lori Jenessa Nelson
Do you hear how the sand sings?
- Laura Esquivel
Swift as Desire
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
- Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves
I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.
- Charles Yu
Sorry Please Thank You
If you really love someone. You wouldn't hide them. You would be proud to let the whole world know that you have feelings for that special someone. If I got asked who do I love. I would straight up say the name. Just imagine how special that person would feel to know that you aren't afraid or embarrassed to let everyone know that person means a lot to you. However, sometimes its understandable especially when you have your friends or family against it. Which to me shouldn't matter because it's your life and we only live once. Even if it doesn't work out, we grow from our own experiences, right?
The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.
- Brian MacLearn
The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.
- Mark Epstein
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
- Author-Poet Aberjhani
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.
- William Trevor
A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.
- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily
- Deborah McKinlay
The View from Here
Your relationship with yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
- Vironika Tugaleva
The Love Mindset
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Forbidden things— my God, I’m drawn to them like a moth to a flame.
- Melody Lee
Vine: Book of Poetry
The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.
- Michael DiMarco
Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do for Love and How to Avoid Them
It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.
- Eknath Easwaran
The End of Sorrow
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
- Sue Grafton
J is for Judgment
It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.
- Steven L. Peck
A Short Stay in Hell
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone."
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.
- Jet Mykles
She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.
- Peter G. Nogel
There is a part of us that knows the timing of any relationship. It knows things that we cannot work out. It knows when to say yes. It knows when to say no. It knows when to wait. It knows when something has finished. It knows when something has started. It knows when we have a responsibility to another person. It knows when the ties are untied. It will not betray us or another.
We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people.
- Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
Poe is missing out on love. Because he's afraid. Afraid to go the distance. Afraid to fully let someone into all the crap we have to live with. I know what it's like to have that fear. But that fear didn't stop the scary shit from happening.
- Rachael Lippincott
Five Feet Apart
I am simply a complicated girl
Mesmerized by mystery
Enchanted with shadows
Intrigued by glitter and gray in each of us
A girl fascinated with word-play;
Paradoxes, ironies, conundrums
In love with adventure and curious about the world
A girl who feels and dreams deeply
Loves passionately
Lives recklessly
But about all else, I am a girl insanely in love with you!
You are my greatest inspiration!
Mesmerized by mystery
Enchanted with shadows
Intrigued by glitter and gray in each of us
A girl fascinated with word-play;
Paradoxes, ironies, conundrums
In love with adventure and curious about the world
A girl who feels and dreams deeply
Loves passionately
Lives recklessly
But about all else, I am a girl insanely in love with you!
You are my greatest inspiration!
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.
- Lori Jenessa Nelson