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
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.0
- Christopher Earle
I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for…1
- Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
...we are taught to put fun and serious pursuits on a continuum as opposed extremes, when this dichotomy is entirely false, made even worse when we act as though we can instantly exchange one for the other...Exerting yourself at a task that is serious and rewarding can still be quite fun, but doing something fun because you have a neurotic need to pack your life full of un is pretty much a guarantee that any long-term benefits you derive will be entirely happenstance.2
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.3
- Robert Downs
Falling Immortality
Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.4
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.4
- Stella Oladiran
I do not know, at this point, whether Joshua Joseph Spork is the man of my life. He could be. I have given it considerable thought. The jury is still out. The issue between you and me is that you wish to deprive me of the opportunity to find out. Joe Spork is not yours to give or to withhold from me, Mr. Cummerbund. He is mine, until I decide otherwise. You have caused him grief, sullied his name, and you have hurt him. If anyone is going to make him weep, or lie about him, or even do bad things to him, it is me.5
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?6
- Mark Gungor
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
Do you mind?” she asked.
“Mind what?”
“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”
“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”
Then she leaned down and kissed him.7
“Mind what?”
“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”
“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”
Then she leaned down and kissed him.7
- Richard Finney
Kicky-Wicky
Beauty is something that is waiting to be found and appreciated. No matter how many ignore, a true aesthete will always discover it.8
- Abhaidev
Heaven's Gate
When you repair your relationship with Allah, He strengthens your relationships with people.9
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Betrayal breaks more than promises — it breaks safety. Healing restores safety first.10
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Sorry if I have a hard time trusting. When you give everything you have to someone and it isn’t valued, something inside you dies and that’s what happened to my ability to trust.11
- Abraham Cezar
One of her duties as a widow, she had learned, was to provide dramatic proof to the neighboring wives that, bad as their husbands might be at times, life without them would be worse.12
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
From Atlanta! His home town. No wonder she had turned him down. Up here trying to get a thrill in the Black Belt but a thrill from observation instead of contact. Gee, but white folks were funny. They didn't want black folks' game and yet they were always frequenting Negro resorts.13
- George S. Schuyler
Black No More
Honestly, the longer I am in the CIA, the more convinced I am that my job isn't the best way to do good in the world. How can you do "good" when you're actively doing bad? I know it's not that simple, but there isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about quitting. No one quits, though. That's the impression they give us. You die before you leave the CIA.14
- Carlie Walker
The Takedown
If love keeps confusing you, exhausting you, or shrinking you — it’s not love.
Real love feels steady, safe, and aligned with your worth.15
Real love feels steady, safe, and aligned with your worth.15
- Lina bloom
"She Chose Herself: A Healing Journey After a Breakup: A Healing Journey After a Breakup
I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.16
- Helen Mirren
Love doesn’t fail when we are different. It fails when we stop trying to understand each other.17
- Sandra Sloat
We Never Spoke the Same Language
If someone isn’t there for you, be there for yourself. Don’t wait for calls that never come, or comfort from someone who only shows up for themselves. Wipe your own tears, hold your own heart together, pick yourself up again. Because the cruel truth is, some people don't love you or care about you, they only care about what they get from you. But you? You are the one who has to live with yourself every day. So show up for yourself… the way others should have, but didn’t.18
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If people pursue relationships for the wrong reasons, they will eventually end in hellish disasters which only they are to blame for indulging in selfish choices.19
You didn’t lose your power — you simply forgot you had it.20
- Lina bloom
Addiction serves a purpose. It is medication for an aching soul, relief for a pained body, and escape from an impossible mind. Addiction is a pretty good survival strategy when all your other strategies for living have failed.
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.21
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.21
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship.
I get that.
And I’ve certainly done that.
I’ve mistaken the delivery device of heavenly pleasure for heaven itself.
And thus I have worshipped so many things— and so many people, too.22
I get that.
And I’ve certainly done that.
I’ve mistaken the delivery device of heavenly pleasure for heaven itself.
And thus I have worshipped so many things— and so many people, too.22
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Rayya already had a community filled with fellow recovering addicts who had loved her for years, and who would have gladly received her admissions of shame and fear and helped her to process her overwhelming desire to drink. They could have guided her back to the principles of the program—back to the acts of service that keep us sober; back to a position of humility and surrender. But Rayya had pushed all those people away in order to chart her own path. And the last thing you ever want an addict doing is charting their own path.23
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.00
- Christopher Earle
I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for…11
- Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
...we are taught to put fun and serious pursuits on a continuum as opposed extremes, when this dichotomy is entirely false, made even worse when we act as though we can instantly exchange one for the other...Exerting yourself at a task that is serious and rewarding can still be quite fun, but doing something fun because you have a neurotic need to pack your life full of un is pretty much a guarantee that any long-term benefits you derive will be entirely happenstance.22
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.33
- Robert Downs
Falling Immortality
Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.44
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.44
- Stella Oladiran
I do not know, at this point, whether Joshua Joseph Spork is the man of my life. He could be. I have given it considerable thought. The jury is still out. The issue between you and me is that you wish to deprive me of the opportunity to find out. Joe Spork is not yours to give or to withhold from me, Mr. Cummerbund. He is mine, until I decide otherwise. You have caused him grief, sullied his name, and you have hurt him. If anyone is going to make him weep, or lie about him, or even do bad things to him, it is me.55
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?66
- Mark Gungor
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
Do you mind?” she asked.
“Mind what?”
“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”
“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”
Then she leaned down and kissed him.77
“Mind what?”
“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”
“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”
Then she leaned down and kissed him.77
- Richard Finney
Kicky-Wicky
Beauty is something that is waiting to be found and appreciated. No matter how many ignore, a true aesthete will always discover it.88
- Abhaidev
Heaven's Gate
When you repair your relationship with Allah, He strengthens your relationships with people.99
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Betrayal breaks more than promises — it breaks safety. Healing restores safety first.1010
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Sorry if I have a hard time trusting. When you give everything you have to someone and it isn’t valued, something inside you dies and that’s what happened to my ability to trust.1111
- Abraham Cezar
One of her duties as a widow, she had learned, was to provide dramatic proof to the neighboring wives that, bad as their husbands might be at times, life without them would be worse.1212
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
From Atlanta! His home town. No wonder she had turned him down. Up here trying to get a thrill in the Black Belt but a thrill from observation instead of contact. Gee, but white folks were funny. They didn't want black folks' game and yet they were always frequenting Negro resorts.1313
- George S. Schuyler
Black No More
Honestly, the longer I am in the CIA, the more convinced I am that my job isn't the best way to do good in the world. How can you do "good" when you're actively doing bad? I know it's not that simple, but there isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about quitting. No one quits, though. That's the impression they give us. You die before you leave the CIA.1414
- Carlie Walker
The Takedown
If love keeps confusing you, exhausting you, or shrinking you — it’s not love.
Real love feels steady, safe, and aligned with your worth.1515
Real love feels steady, safe, and aligned with your worth.1515
- Lina bloom
"She Chose Herself: A Healing Journey After a Breakup: A Healing Journey After a Breakup
I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.1616
- Helen Mirren
Love doesn’t fail when we are different. It fails when we stop trying to understand each other.1717
- Sandra Sloat
We Never Spoke the Same Language
If someone isn’t there for you, be there for yourself. Don’t wait for calls that never come, or comfort from someone who only shows up for themselves. Wipe your own tears, hold your own heart together, pick yourself up again. Because the cruel truth is, some people don't love you or care about you, they only care about what they get from you. But you? You are the one who has to live with yourself every day. So show up for yourself… the way others should have, but didn’t.1818
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If people pursue relationships for the wrong reasons, they will eventually end in hellish disasters which only they are to blame for indulging in selfish choices.1919
You didn’t lose your power — you simply forgot you had it.2020
- Lina bloom
Addiction serves a purpose. It is medication for an aching soul, relief for a pained body, and escape from an impossible mind. Addiction is a pretty good survival strategy when all your other strategies for living have failed.
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.2121
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.2121
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship.
I get that.
And I’ve certainly done that.
I’ve mistaken the delivery device of heavenly pleasure for heaven itself.
And thus I have worshipped so many things— and so many people, too.2222
I get that.
And I’ve certainly done that.
I’ve mistaken the delivery device of heavenly pleasure for heaven itself.
And thus I have worshipped so many things— and so many people, too.2222
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Rayya already had a community filled with fellow recovering addicts who had loved her for years, and who would have gladly received her admissions of shame and fear and helped her to process her overwhelming desire to drink. They could have guided her back to the principles of the program—back to the acts of service that keep us sober; back to a position of humility and surrender. But Rayya had pushed all those people away in order to chart her own path. And the last thing you ever want an addict doing is charting their own path.2323
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.000
- Christopher Earle
I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for…111
- Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
...we are taught to put fun and serious pursuits on a continuum as opposed extremes, when this dichotomy is entirely false, made even worse when we act as though we can instantly exchange one for the other...Exerting yourself at a task that is serious and rewarding can still be quite fun, but doing something fun because you have a neurotic need to pack your life full of un is pretty much a guarantee that any long-term benefits you derive will be entirely happenstance.222
- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
That's where your definition of attachment comes in. I'm in a monogamous relationship with two people.333
- Robert Downs
Falling Immortality
Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.444
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.444
- Stella Oladiran
I do not know, at this point, whether Joshua Joseph Spork is the man of my life. He could be. I have given it considerable thought. The jury is still out. The issue between you and me is that you wish to deprive me of the opportunity to find out. Joe Spork is not yours to give or to withhold from me, Mr. Cummerbund. He is mine, until I decide otherwise. You have caused him grief, sullied his name, and you have hurt him. If anyone is going to make him weep, or lie about him, or even do bad things to him, it is me.555
- Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker
You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?666
- Mark Gungor
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage
Do you mind?” she asked.
“Mind what?”
“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”
“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”
Then she leaned down and kissed him.777
“Mind what?”
“While you were looking in the mirror I couldn’t help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I’m doing the polite thing again and asking, ‘do you mind?’”
“No, Nina. I don’t mind at all.”
Then she leaned down and kissed him.777
- Richard Finney
Kicky-Wicky
Beauty is something that is waiting to be found and appreciated. No matter how many ignore, a true aesthete will always discover it.888
- Abhaidev
Heaven's Gate
When you repair your relationship with Allah, He strengthens your relationships with people.999
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Betrayal breaks more than promises — it breaks safety. Healing restores safety first.101010
- Yahya Kasozi
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship: A Qur’an, Hadith, and Psychology-Based Guide to Healing Hearts
Sorry if I have a hard time trusting. When you give everything you have to someone and it isn’t valued, something inside you dies and that’s what happened to my ability to trust.111111
- Abraham Cezar
One of her duties as a widow, she had learned, was to provide dramatic proof to the neighboring wives that, bad as their husbands might be at times, life without them would be worse.121212
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
From Atlanta! His home town. No wonder she had turned him down. Up here trying to get a thrill in the Black Belt but a thrill from observation instead of contact. Gee, but white folks were funny. They didn't want black folks' game and yet they were always frequenting Negro resorts.131313
- George S. Schuyler
Black No More
Honestly, the longer I am in the CIA, the more convinced I am that my job isn't the best way to do good in the world. How can you do "good" when you're actively doing bad? I know it's not that simple, but there isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about quitting. No one quits, though. That's the impression they give us. You die before you leave the CIA.141414
- Carlie Walker
The Takedown
If love keeps confusing you, exhausting you, or shrinking you — it’s not love.
Real love feels steady, safe, and aligned with your worth.151515
Real love feels steady, safe, and aligned with your worth.151515
- Lina bloom
"She Chose Herself: A Healing Journey After a Breakup: A Healing Journey After a Breakup
I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.161616
- Helen Mirren
Love doesn’t fail when we are different. It fails when we stop trying to understand each other.171717
- Sandra Sloat
We Never Spoke the Same Language
If someone isn’t there for you, be there for yourself. Don’t wait for calls that never come, or comfort from someone who only shows up for themselves. Wipe your own tears, hold your own heart together, pick yourself up again. Because the cruel truth is, some people don't love you or care about you, they only care about what they get from you. But you? You are the one who has to live with yourself every day. So show up for yourself… the way others should have, but didn’t.181818
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If people pursue relationships for the wrong reasons, they will eventually end in hellish disasters which only they are to blame for indulging in selfish choices.191919
You didn’t lose your power — you simply forgot you had it.202020
- Lina bloom
Addiction serves a purpose. It is medication for an aching soul, relief for a pained body, and escape from an impossible mind. Addiction is a pretty good survival strategy when all your other strategies for living have failed.
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.212121
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.212121
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship.
I get that.
And I’ve certainly done that.
I’ve mistaken the delivery device of heavenly pleasure for heaven itself.
And thus I have worshipped so many things— and so many people, too.222222
I get that.
And I’ve certainly done that.
I’ve mistaken the delivery device of heavenly pleasure for heaven itself.
And thus I have worshipped so many things— and so many people, too.222222
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Rayya already had a community filled with fellow recovering addicts who had loved her for years, and who would have gladly received her admissions of shame and fear and helped her to process her overwhelming desire to drink. They could have guided her back to the principles of the program—back to the acts of service that keep us sober; back to a position of humility and surrender. But Rayya had pushed all those people away in order to chart her own path. And the last thing you ever want an addict doing is charting their own path.232323
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River