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
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
- Dora J. Arod
Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.
- Martina Boone
Compulsion
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”
Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
- Rick Riordan
The Mark of Athena
A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men.
- Raven Leilani
Luster
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs
You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face
- Sherry Argov
Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?
- DEAN MAFAKO, M.D.
Burned Out
She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
- Dorothy Parker
The Collected Dorothy Parker
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.
- Mocco Wollert
The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.
I had a dream about you last night.. You were playing with chicken livers and told me everyone was in quarantine.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.
- Janet Skeslien Charles
Moonlight in Odessa
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.
- Gary Chapman
The Five Love Languages Singles Edition
Why?' He asked.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
- Michelle Hodkin
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.
- Timothy Keller
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.
- Ellen J. Barrier
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
- Dora J. Arod
Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.
- Martina Boone
Compulsion
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”
Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
- Rick Riordan
The Mark of Athena
A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men.
- Raven Leilani
Luster
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs
You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face
- Sherry Argov
Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?
- DEAN MAFAKO, M.D.
Burned Out
She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
- Dorothy Parker
The Collected Dorothy Parker
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.
- Mocco Wollert
The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.
I had a dream about you last night.. You were playing with chicken livers and told me everyone was in quarantine.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.
- Janet Skeslien Charles
Moonlight in Odessa
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.
- Gary Chapman
The Five Love Languages Singles Edition
Why?' He asked.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
- Michelle Hodkin
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.
- Timothy Keller
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.
- Ellen J. Barrier
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
- Dora J. Arod
Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.
- Martina Boone
Compulsion
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
If we can’t repair things with the Romans—well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That’s why the gods kept us separate. I don’t know if we could ever belong there.”
Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
Percy didn’t want to argue, but he couldn’t let go of the hope. It felt important—not just for him, but for all the other demigods. It had to be possible to belong in two different worlds at once. After all, that’s what being a demigod was all about—not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus, but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
- Rick Riordan
The Mark of Athena
A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men.
- Raven Leilani
Luster
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs
You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face
- Sherry Argov
Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?
- DEAN MAFAKO, M.D.
Burned Out
She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
- Dorothy Parker
The Collected Dorothy Parker
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored shadow
within a look.
- Mocco Wollert
The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.
I had a dream about you last night.. You were playing with chicken livers and told me everyone was in quarantine.
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.
- Janet Skeslien Charles
Moonlight in Odessa
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.
- Gary Chapman
The Five Love Languages Singles Edition
Why?' He asked.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
- Michelle Hodkin
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.
- Timothy Keller
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.
- Ellen J. Barrier