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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Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
- Cricket Rohman
Colorado Takedown
They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
- M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. I have found that what usually brings this lethargy on is if the woman displays some special kindness. Like making dinner.
- Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
- S. J. Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.
- Amy Guth
Three Fallen Women
Fighting is a soldier’s only religion. But it has proven useful to adopt the religion of the country I wish to conquer.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive.
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
Some people will hate you for not loving them.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue.
- Mark Gungor
I wondered how much of the feeling of love is chemicals and cravings and dependency, and how much of the act of love is habit.
- Hazel Hayes
Out of Love
Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
- Cricket Rohman
Colorado Takedown
They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
- M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. I have found that what usually brings this lethargy on is if the woman displays some special kindness. Like making dinner.
- Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
- S. J. Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.
- Amy Guth
Three Fallen Women
Fighting is a soldier’s only religion. But it has proven useful to adopt the religion of the country I wish to conquer.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive.
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
Some people will hate you for not loving them.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue.
- Mark Gungor
I wondered how much of the feeling of love is chemicals and cravings and dependency, and how much of the act of love is habit.
- Hazel Hayes
Out of Love
Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
- Cricket Rohman
Colorado Takedown
They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.
- Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.

'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
- M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. I have found that what usually brings this lethargy on is if the woman displays some special kindness. Like making dinner.
- Eve Babitz
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
- bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
- S. J. Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.
- Michael Summers
I Had a Dream About You
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.
- Amy Guth
Three Fallen Women
Fighting is a soldier’s only religion. But it has proven useful to adopt the religion of the country I wish to conquer.
- Rebecca Rosenberg
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
- Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?
- Simona Panova
Nightmarish Sacrifice
I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive.
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
Some people will hate you for not loving them.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue.
- Mark Gungor
I wondered how much of the feeling of love is chemicals and cravings and dependency, and how much of the act of love is habit.
- Hazel Hayes
Out of Love
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