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
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.
- Andre Breton
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.
- Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Share too much and someone can hurt you.
- Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl
I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
- Alessandra Torre
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.
- John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
- David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.
- Crystal Woods
Write like no one is reading
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.
A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
- J.S.B. Morse
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
- A.M. Riley
Immortality is the Suck
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
- Tanith Lee
Wolf Star
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
- Francois Truffaut
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
- George K. Simon Jr.
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.
- Andre Breton
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.
- Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Share too much and someone can hurt you.
- Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl
I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
- Alessandra Torre
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.
- John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
- David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.
- Crystal Woods
Write like no one is reading
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.
A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
- J.S.B. Morse
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
- A.M. Riley
Immortality is the Suck
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
- Tanith Lee
Wolf Star
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
- Francois Truffaut
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
- George K. Simon Jr.
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.
- Andre Breton
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.
- Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Share too much and someone can hurt you.
- Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl
I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.
- Alessandra Torre
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.
- John Adams
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
- David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.
- Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.
- Crystal Woods
Write like no one is reading
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.
A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.
- J.S.B. Morse
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
- A.M. Riley
Immortality is the Suck
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
- Tanith Lee
Wolf Star
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs
- Francois Truffaut
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
- George K. Simon Jr.
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
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