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
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.0
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.1
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.1
- Merle Shain
Courage My Love
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.2
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?3
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?3
- Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.4
- Dee Dee Artner
If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!5
- Tracy Yates
Suzy Freaking Q: The defintive renegade high school handbook on what to say and what to do about guys, friends, parents and more.
Accept that what you see is what you'll get. Once your relationship becomes firmly established, your partner's personality and the way in which [he or] she treats you will most likely be what your future together will look like. Staying with a partner whom you hope will change usually results in disappointment.6
- Mary C. Lamia
The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.7
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.8
- Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good … I propose to have sex with you. I believe it will be excellent sex. Your obedience on one particular issue of timing it will be required to make it unforgettable sex. I will explain that issue as we go. At the moment, I wish to hear your inevitable objection to the general sex part of this plan.9
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?10
- Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me
It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.11
- Amanda Grange
Henry Tilney's Diary
I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.12
- Molly Ringle
Relatively Honest
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.13
- Mark Epstein
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
It was not your love that lacked intensity, it was the person that lacked quality.14
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.15
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The thing we need most is relationships. The thing we seem to suck at most is relationships.16
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain.
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.17
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.17
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Because that’s intimacy, Buckaroos.
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.18
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.18
- Allie Brosh
Solutions and Other Problems
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)19
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)19
For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen.20
- The Verve Pipe
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.21
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I had a dream about you. We were in a canoe, and we were paddling across the desert. You said you were thirsty, and I pointed to the sand that surrounded us and said, “No, I will not urinate in your mouth.” At that point I woke up, because I realized I really had to pee—and get a drink of water.
22
- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.23
- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.00
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.11
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.11
- Merle Shain
Courage My Love
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.22
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?33
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?33
- Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.44
- Dee Dee Artner
If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!55
- Tracy Yates
Suzy Freaking Q: The defintive renegade high school handbook on what to say and what to do about guys, friends, parents and more.
Accept that what you see is what you'll get. Once your relationship becomes firmly established, your partner's personality and the way in which [he or] she treats you will most likely be what your future together will look like. Staying with a partner whom you hope will change usually results in disappointment.66
- Mary C. Lamia
The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.77
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.88
- Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good … I propose to have sex with you. I believe it will be excellent sex. Your obedience on one particular issue of timing it will be required to make it unforgettable sex. I will explain that issue as we go. At the moment, I wish to hear your inevitable objection to the general sex part of this plan.99
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?1010
- Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me
It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.1111
- Amanda Grange
Henry Tilney's Diary
I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.1212
- Molly Ringle
Relatively Honest
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.1313
- Mark Epstein
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
It was not your love that lacked intensity, it was the person that lacked quality.1414
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.1515
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The thing we need most is relationships. The thing we seem to suck at most is relationships.1616
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain.
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.1717
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.1717
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Because that’s intimacy, Buckaroos.
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.1818
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.1818
- Allie Brosh
Solutions and Other Problems
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)1919
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)1919
For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen.2020
- The Verve Pipe
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.2121
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I had a dream about you. We were in a canoe, and we were paddling across the desert. You said you were thirsty, and I pointed to the sand that surrounded us and said, “No, I will not urinate in your mouth.” At that point I woke up, because I realized I really had to pee—and get a drink of water.
2222
- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.2323
- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead
Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.000
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
Intimacy requires accommodation and gentleness at it's core, and does with phrases like "If it bothers you I won't do it," and "Now I understand." And "Thank you for telling me that. I hadn't seen it in that light." And "I appreciate you taking the time to get through my defences. I am sorry I put up such a fight."
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.111
You'd be surprised how much power there is in respect, and how much respect comes back, and how much intimacy there is when you empower someone instead of overpower them, and how much more love.111
- Merle Shain
Courage My Love
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.222
- Melody Lee
Moon Gypsy
Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?333
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?333
- Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.444
- Dee Dee Artner
If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!555
- Tracy Yates
Suzy Freaking Q: The defintive renegade high school handbook on what to say and what to do about guys, friends, parents and more.
Accept that what you see is what you'll get. Once your relationship becomes firmly established, your partner's personality and the way in which [he or] she treats you will most likely be what your future together will look like. Staying with a partner whom you hope will change usually results in disappointment.666
- Mary C. Lamia
The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.777
- Anthony Kiedis
Scar Tissue
Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.888
- Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good … I propose to have sex with you. I believe it will be excellent sex. Your obedience on one particular issue of timing it will be required to make it unforgettable sex. I will explain that issue as we go. At the moment, I wish to hear your inevitable objection to the general sex part of this plan.999
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?101010
- Madeleine George
The Difference Between You and Me
It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.111111
- Amanda Grange
Henry Tilney's Diary
I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.121212
- Molly Ringle
Relatively Honest
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.131313
- Mark Epstein
Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
It was not your love that lacked intensity, it was the person that lacked quality.141414
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.151515
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The thing we need most is relationships. The thing we seem to suck at most is relationships.161616
- David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain.
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.171717
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.171717
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Because that’s intimacy, Buckaroos.
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.181818
Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.181818
- Allie Brosh
Solutions and Other Problems
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)191919
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)191919
For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen.202020
- The Verve Pipe
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.212121
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I had a dream about you. We were in a canoe, and we were paddling across the desert. You said you were thirsty, and I pointed to the sand that surrounded us and said, “No, I will not urinate in your mouth.” At that point I woke up, because I realized I really had to pee—and get a drink of water.
222222
- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.232323
- Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead