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
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I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.
- Daphne Rose Kingma
Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Bring You the Love of Your Life
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
- Emily Giffin
Heart of the Matter
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
- Lawrence Hill
Someone Knows My Name
It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle
How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.
- Jenny Han
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
- David Richo
Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
- Wayne W. Dyer
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- Erykah Badu
Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.
- Amanda Palmer
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Travesuras de la niña mala
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
- Leila Sales
Past Perfect
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
- Jan Neruda
Prague Tales
I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I knew it was you because you were the brightest.
- Crystal Hudson
Dreaming is for lovers
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.
- Kellie Elmore
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.
- Daphne Rose Kingma
Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Bring You the Love of Your Life
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
- Emily Giffin
Heart of the Matter
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
- Lawrence Hill
Someone Knows My Name
It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle
How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.
- Jenny Han
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
- David Richo
Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
- Wayne W. Dyer
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- Erykah Badu
Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.
- Amanda Palmer
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Travesuras de la niña mala
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
- Leila Sales
Past Perfect
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
- Jan Neruda
Prague Tales
I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I knew it was you because you were the brightest.
- Crystal Hudson
Dreaming is for lovers
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.
- Kellie Elmore
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.
- Mandy Hale
The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.
- Daphne Rose Kingma
Finding True Love: The 4 Essential Keys to Bring You the Love of Your Life
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
- Emily Giffin
Heart of the Matter
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
- Lawrence Hill
Someone Knows My Name
It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle
How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.
- Jenny Han
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
- David Richo
Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
- Wayne W. Dyer
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- Erykah Badu
Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.
- Amanda Palmer
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.
- Wm. Paul Young
The Shack
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Travesuras de la niña mala
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
- Leila Sales
Past Perfect
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
- Jan Neruda
Prague Tales
I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I knew it was you because you were the brightest.
- Crystal Hudson
Dreaming is for lovers
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
- George Eliot
Middlemarch
Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.
- Kellie Elmore
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