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
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
- Mae West
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
- Jane Austen
Emma
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
- Amy Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
- Henry Winkler
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.
- Daphne Gottlieb
Why Things Burn
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
- Amy Poehler
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.
- Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
- Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
- Tim McGraw
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
- Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park
If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.
- Charles Bukowski
Living on Luck
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
- Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Love without sacrifice is like theft
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
- Mae West
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
- Jane Austen
Emma
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
- Amy Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
- Henry Winkler
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.
- Daphne Gottlieb
Why Things Burn
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
- Amy Poehler
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.
- Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
- Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
- Tim McGraw
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
- Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park
If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.
- Charles Bukowski
Living on Luck
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
- Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Love without sacrifice is like theft
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
- Albert Camus
The Fall
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
- Mae West
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
- L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
- Jane Austen
Emma
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
- Amy Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
- Henry Winkler
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.
- Daphne Gottlieb
Why Things Burn
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
- Amy Poehler
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.
- Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
- Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
- Tim McGraw
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
- Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park
If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my fingertips
and at brain edges
and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.
- Charles Bukowski
Living on Luck
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
- Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Love without sacrifice is like theft
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms