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
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
- Sarah Ruhl
Eurydice
We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
- Laura Schroff
An Invisible Thread
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
I had a dream about you last night... you were crying over spilt ink screaming "the words, the what could have been beautiful words.
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.
- Olivia Sudjic
Sympathy
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
- Erin McCarthy
Hard and Fast
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
- Renate Linnenkoper
Exogenesis
well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.
- Jim Lewis
I had a dream about you last night... shortly after I woke up screaming in terror.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.
- Lauren Conrad
L.A. Candy
The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.
- Ross MacDonald
The Blue Hammer
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three
Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could.
- Carol Oates
Ember
(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
- Nancy Woodruff
My Wife's Affair
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.
- Ann Patchett
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.
- Leo Buscaglia
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. "Give me the three minute version of your life story," he said. I nailed it it one then refused to throw the question back as etiquette governs. He wanted to know where I'd been. I wanted to know who he was.
- Eleni Zoe
Hope Dies Last: Lessons in Love
It's hard to admit that a marriage might be over when the love is still there. People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost; when anger replaces happiness when contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren't angry with each other, we're just not the same people we used to be.
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
- Alaric Hutchinson
To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.
- Christos Yannaras
Variations on the Song of Songs
God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Heart Crush
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
- Sarah Ruhl
Eurydice
We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
- Laura Schroff
An Invisible Thread
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
I had a dream about you last night... you were crying over spilt ink screaming "the words, the what could have been beautiful words.
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.
- Olivia Sudjic
Sympathy
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
- Erin McCarthy
Hard and Fast
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
- Renate Linnenkoper
Exogenesis
well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.
- Jim Lewis
I had a dream about you last night... shortly after I woke up screaming in terror.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.
- Lauren Conrad
L.A. Candy
The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.
- Ross MacDonald
The Blue Hammer
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three
Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could.
- Carol Oates
Ember
(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
- Nancy Woodruff
My Wife's Affair
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.
- Ann Patchett
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.
- Leo Buscaglia
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. "Give me the three minute version of your life story," he said. I nailed it it one then refused to throw the question back as etiquette governs. He wanted to know where I'd been. I wanted to know who he was.
- Eleni Zoe
Hope Dies Last: Lessons in Love
It's hard to admit that a marriage might be over when the love is still there. People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost; when anger replaces happiness when contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren't angry with each other, we're just not the same people we used to be.
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
- Alaric Hutchinson
To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.
- Christos Yannaras
Variations on the Song of Songs
God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Heart Crush
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
- Sarah Ruhl
Eurydice
We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
- Laura Schroff
An Invisible Thread
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
I had a dream about you last night... you were crying over spilt ink screaming "the words, the what could have been beautiful words.
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.
- Olivia Sudjic
Sympathy
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
- Erin McCarthy
Hard and Fast
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
- Renate Linnenkoper
Exogenesis
well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.
- Jim Lewis
I had a dream about you last night... shortly after I woke up screaming in terror.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.
- Lauren Conrad
L.A. Candy
The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.
- Ross MacDonald
The Blue Hammer
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three
Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could.
- Carol Oates
Ember
(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
- Nancy Woodruff
My Wife's Affair
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.
- Ann Patchett
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.
- Leo Buscaglia
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. "Give me the three minute version of your life story," he said. I nailed it it one then refused to throw the question back as etiquette governs. He wanted to know where I'd been. I wanted to know who he was.
- Eleni Zoe
Hope Dies Last: Lessons in Love
It's hard to admit that a marriage might be over when the love is still there. People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost; when anger replaces happiness when contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren't angry with each other, we're just not the same people we used to be.
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
- Alaric Hutchinson
To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.
- Christos Yannaras
Variations on the Song of Songs
God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Heart Crush