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
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
- Dirk Wittenborn
Fierce People
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
- Ray Lamontagne
I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares.
- Bauvard
I Had a Dream About You
In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.
- Robert Glover
No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
- Myles Munroe
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
- Tom Brokaw
And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.
- Kemi Sogunle
But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.
To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
- Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.
- Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"
My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."
"What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?"
It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how I feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me."
St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?"
"Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes."
"Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer.
My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."
"What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?"
It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how I feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me."
St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?"
"Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes."
"Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer.
- Stephanie Perkins
Anna and the French Kiss
They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
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And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
-
Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
-
And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
-
Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
- Bradley Trevor Greive
Looking For Mr. Right
Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?
- Steven Barnes
What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?
- Mario L Castellanos
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
- Stephen King
The Stand
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
- John Green
Paper Towns
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.
- Kirsten Hubbard
Like Mandarin
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
- Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
- Dirk Wittenborn
Fierce People
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
- Ray Lamontagne
I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares.
- Bauvard
I Had a Dream About You
In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.
- Robert Glover
No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
- Myles Munroe
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
- Tom Brokaw
And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.
- Kemi Sogunle
But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.
To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
- Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.
- Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"
My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."
"What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?"
It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how I feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me."
St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?"
"Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes."
"Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer.
My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."
"What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?"
It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how I feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me."
St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?"
"Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes."
"Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer.
- Stephanie Perkins
Anna and the French Kiss
They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
-
And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
-
Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
-
And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
-
Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
- Bradley Trevor Greive
Looking For Mr. Right
Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?
- Steven Barnes
What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?
- Mario L Castellanos
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
- Stephen King
The Stand
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
- John Green
Paper Towns
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.
- Kirsten Hubbard
Like Mandarin
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
- Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
- Dirk Wittenborn
Fierce People
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
- Ray Lamontagne
I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares.
- Bauvard
I Had a Dream About You
In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.
- Robert Glover
No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
- Myles Munroe
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
- Tom Brokaw
And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.
- Kemi Sogunle
But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.
To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. People learn intimacy at home, and when those early standards are set too low, a wife may second-guess her judgment about when and whether she should leave.
- Anne Michaud
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
- Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.
- Rebecca Serle
In Five Years
That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"
My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."
"What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?"
It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how I feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me."
St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?"
"Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes."
"Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer.
My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."
"What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been here?"
It takes a moment to consider the question. "It's not a matter of how I feel," I say at last. "I'm interested, but ... I don't know if he's still interested in me."
St. Clair edges closer. "Does he still call?"
"Yeah. I mean, not often. But yes."
"Right. Right, well," he says, blinking. "There's your answer.
- Stephanie Perkins
Anna and the French Kiss
They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
-
And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
-
Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
-
And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
-
Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
- Bradley Trevor Greive
Looking For Mr. Right
Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?
- Steven Barnes
What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?
- Mario L Castellanos
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
- Stephen King
The Stand
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
- John Green
Paper Towns
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.
- Kirsten Hubbard
Like Mandarin
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
- Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games