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 played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over.
- Graham Parke
No Hope for Gomez!
It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
- Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.
- Emma Forrest
Your Voice in My Head
A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
- Elizabeth Hoyt
Notorious Pleasures
Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Anthropology of an American Girl
Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.
- Nancy Mangano
Running Stop Signs
If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.
- Kristen Crockett
The Gift of Past Relationships
There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.
- Cathy Burnham Martin
The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
I had a dream about you. You were crying, and I couldn’t tell if it was because you were sad or because you’d been laughing too hard. So I decided to find out by telling you that I’d just heard from the cops, and your mother had been murdered. Before I got to the punch line you started sobbing in a different manner, so I realized you’d been laughing earlier. By that time the mood had changed, and I decided it best not to deliver the punch line after all. So I sat down next to you and put my arm around you and tried to console you for your perceived loss.
- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.
- Kemi Sogunle
Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
- Orhan Pamuk
Snow
The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.
Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
- Ani DiFranco
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bonds of intimacy and solidarity with one another. Now part of this frustration is to be understood again in relation to structures and institutions. In the way in which our culture of consumption has promoted an addiction to stimulation - one that puts a premium on packaged and commodified stimulation. The market does this to convince us that our consumption keeps oiling the economy for it to reproduce itself. But the effect of this addiction to stimulation is an undermining, a waning of our ability for qualitatively rich relationships.
- Cornel West
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
- Jude Morgan
Indiscretion
You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
- melissa banks
For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...
- Abigail Thomas
A Three Dog Life
The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.
- Mabel iam
You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diagnosis.
You shine like love
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference
- McKenzie Richardson
433 Lighted Way
We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over.
- Graham Parke
No Hope for Gomez!
It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
- Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.
- Emma Forrest
Your Voice in My Head
A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
- Elizabeth Hoyt
Notorious Pleasures
Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Anthropology of an American Girl
Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.
- Nancy Mangano
Running Stop Signs
If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.
- Kristen Crockett
The Gift of Past Relationships
There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.
- Cathy Burnham Martin
The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
I had a dream about you. You were crying, and I couldn’t tell if it was because you were sad or because you’d been laughing too hard. So I decided to find out by telling you that I’d just heard from the cops, and your mother had been murdered. Before I got to the punch line you started sobbing in a different manner, so I realized you’d been laughing earlier. By that time the mood had changed, and I decided it best not to deliver the punch line after all. So I sat down next to you and put my arm around you and tried to console you for your perceived loss.
- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.
- Kemi Sogunle
Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
- Orhan Pamuk
Snow
The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.
Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
- Ani DiFranco
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bonds of intimacy and solidarity with one another. Now part of this frustration is to be understood again in relation to structures and institutions. In the way in which our culture of consumption has promoted an addiction to stimulation - one that puts a premium on packaged and commodified stimulation. The market does this to convince us that our consumption keeps oiling the economy for it to reproduce itself. But the effect of this addiction to stimulation is an undermining, a waning of our ability for qualitatively rich relationships.
- Cornel West
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
- Jude Morgan
Indiscretion
You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
- melissa banks
For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...
- Abigail Thomas
A Three Dog Life
The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.
- Mabel iam
You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diagnosis.
You shine like love
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference
- McKenzie Richardson
433 Lighted Way
We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over.
- Graham Parke
No Hope for Gomez!
It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
- Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think.
- Emma Forrest
Your Voice in My Head
A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
- Elizabeth Hoyt
Notorious Pleasures
Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.
But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kindness."
He wiped my cheeks, saying Ssshh. I buried my face in his shoulder.
True kindness is stabilizing," I went on. "When you feel it and when you express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. Like all there is to achieve. It's life, demystified. A place out of self, a network of simple pleasures, not a waltz, but like whirls within a waltz."
You're the one now," Jack said definitively. "That's why you met her. She had something she had to pass on." (p. 95)
- Hilary Thayer Hamann
Anthropology of an American Girl
Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.
- Nancy Mangano
Running Stop Signs
If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.
- Kristen Crockett
The Gift of Past Relationships
There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.
- Cathy Burnham Martin
The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
I had a dream about you. You were crying, and I couldn’t tell if it was because you were sad or because you’d been laughing too hard. So I decided to find out by telling you that I’d just heard from the cops, and your mother had been murdered. Before I got to the punch line you started sobbing in a different manner, so I realized you’d been laughing earlier. By that time the mood had changed, and I decided it best not to deliver the punch line after all. So I sat down next to you and put my arm around you and tried to console you for your perceived loss.
- Dora J. Arod
I Had a Dream About You
If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space.
- Kemi Sogunle
Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
- Orhan Pamuk
Snow
The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.
Adding to my emotional dizziness on Sunday, I spoke with my sister, who kept noting how amazing Michael is, and what a brave and selfless man he is for having helped as he did.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
- Ani DiFranco
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bonds of intimacy and solidarity with one another. Now part of this frustration is to be understood again in relation to structures and institutions. In the way in which our culture of consumption has promoted an addiction to stimulation - one that puts a premium on packaged and commodified stimulation. The market does this to convince us that our consumption keeps oiling the economy for it to reproduce itself. But the effect of this addiction to stimulation is an undermining, a waning of our ability for qualitatively rich relationships.
- Cornel West
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
- Jude Morgan
Indiscretion
You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
- melissa banks
For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...
- Abigail Thomas
A Three Dog Life
The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.
- Mabel iam
You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diagnosis.
You shine like love
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference
- McKenzie Richardson
433 Lighted Way