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
That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free.
- David Gates
And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.
- Vatsal Surti
20
Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Somehow, in all the world, with all the people in it, in all their wonky shapes, they were shaped to fit each other.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.
- C.J. English
Affairytale
It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas—of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn’t had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding.
- Nicole Krauss
Great House
To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.
- Julieanne O'Connor
Spelling It Out for Your Man
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them. We can accomplish this only if we are willing to put in the energy and take the time to study failed relationships as well as examine successful ones. Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly. Unless we are looking for pain, they must not be forever approached in a trial and error fashion. Too many of us have experienced the cost of these lackadaisical approaches in terms of tears, confusion and guilt.
- Leo Buscaglia
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.
- Molly Ringle
The Ghost Downstairs
Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.
- Francis Lucille
The Perfume of Silence
Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn’t exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.
- Byron Katie
Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.
- E M Forster
Howards End
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.
- Donna Lynn Hope
To lovers there.
Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I love being aroused.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
It’s like I’m being made new.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
It’s like I’m being made new.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free.
- David Gates
And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.
- Vatsal Surti
20
Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Somehow, in all the world, with all the people in it, in all their wonky shapes, they were shaped to fit each other.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.
- C.J. English
Affairytale
It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas—of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn’t had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding.
- Nicole Krauss
Great House
To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.
- Julieanne O'Connor
Spelling It Out for Your Man
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them. We can accomplish this only if we are willing to put in the energy and take the time to study failed relationships as well as examine successful ones. Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly. Unless we are looking for pain, they must not be forever approached in a trial and error fashion. Too many of us have experienced the cost of these lackadaisical approaches in terms of tears, confusion and guilt.
- Leo Buscaglia
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.
- Molly Ringle
The Ghost Downstairs
Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.
- Francis Lucille
The Perfume of Silence
Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn’t exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.
- Byron Katie
Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.
- E M Forster
Howards End
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.
- Donna Lynn Hope
To lovers there.
Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I love being aroused.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
It’s like I’m being made new.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
It’s like I’m being made new.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual
That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free.
- David Gates
And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.
- Vatsal Surti
20
Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.
- Sharon Salzberg
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Somehow, in all the world, with all the people in it, in all their wonky shapes, they were shaped to fit each other.
- Daniel Nayeri
Everything Sad Is Untrue
I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.
- C.J. English
Affairytale
It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas—of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn’t had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding.
- Nicole Krauss
Great House
To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.
- Julieanne O'Connor
Spelling It Out for Your Man
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike
- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them. We can accomplish this only if we are willing to put in the energy and take the time to study failed relationships as well as examine successful ones. Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly. Unless we are looking for pain, they must not be forever approached in a trial and error fashion. Too many of us have experienced the cost of these lackadaisical approaches in terms of tears, confusion and guilt.
- Leo Buscaglia
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive
She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.
- Molly Ringle
The Ghost Downstairs
Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
- Donna Goddard
Waldmeer
It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.
- Francis Lucille
The Perfume of Silence
Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn’t exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.
- Byron Katie
Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.
- E M Forster
Howards End
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.
- Donna Lynn Hope
To lovers there.
Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I love being aroused.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
It’s like I’m being made new.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
It’s like I’m being made new.
- Fiona Thrust
Naked and Sexual