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
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
- Jess C Scott
Tongue-Tied
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Let Me Be a Woman
I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.
- Bridget Davis
Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and practice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.
- David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear
Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.
- Barbara Sontheimer
Victor's Blessing
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.
- Hjalmar Söderberg
Doctor Glas
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.
- Greg Behrendt
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.
- Daniel Handler
Why We Broke Up
You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.
- Alice Oseman
Loveless
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
- Amy Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.
In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.
- Claudia Clark
Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
- David Levithan
Every Day
It was awful and so surreal to see it unfold before my eyes. I will never forget that sight. The only thing I could think of is that one day you are king of your domain, and the next day you are being escorted to your car by security.
- DEAN MAFAKO, M.D.
Burned Out
she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete
and yet never fully complete
- Maquita Donyel Irvin
Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
Lies don't end relationships the truth does.
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
- Jess C Scott
Tongue-Tied
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Let Me Be a Woman
I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.
- Bridget Davis
Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and practice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.
- David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear
Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.
- Barbara Sontheimer
Victor's Blessing
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.
- Hjalmar Söderberg
Doctor Glas
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.
- Greg Behrendt
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.
- Daniel Handler
Why We Broke Up
You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.
- Alice Oseman
Loveless
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
- Amy Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.
In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.
- Claudia Clark
Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
- David Levithan
Every Day
It was awful and so surreal to see it unfold before my eyes. I will never forget that sight. The only thing I could think of is that one day you are king of your domain, and the next day you are being escorted to your car by security.
- DEAN MAFAKO, M.D.
Burned Out
she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete
and yet never fully complete
- Maquita Donyel Irvin
Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
Lies don't end relationships the truth does.
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
- Jess C Scott
Tongue-Tied
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!
- André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Let Me Be a Woman
I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.
- Bridget Davis
Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and practice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.
- David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear
Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.
- Barbara Sontheimer
Victor's Blessing
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.
- Hjalmar Söderberg
Doctor Glas
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.
- Greg Behrendt
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.
- Daniel Handler
Why We Broke Up
You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.
- Alice Oseman
Loveless
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
- Amy Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.
In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.
- Claudia Clark
Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
- David Levithan
Every Day
It was awful and so surreal to see it unfold before my eyes. I will never forget that sight. The only thing I could think of is that one day you are king of your domain, and the next day you are being escorted to your car by security.
- DEAN MAFAKO, M.D.
Burned Out
she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete
and yet never fully complete
- Maquita Donyel Irvin
Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
Lies don't end relationships the truth does.