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 wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'0
- Louise Rennison
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
I had a dream about you last night.. You were balancing ten tiny footballs on your nose while dancing with a turquoise unicorn.1
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
You've got an awfully kissable mouth.2
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Girls
But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.3
- Marina Keegan
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.4
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.4
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.5
- Jerzy Kosiński
Steps
I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.6
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.7
- Rob Liano
Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.8
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.8
- Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
When we scan our desires and relationships with awareness and base them on their real-world value, we can free ourselves from irrational attachments and align desires with reason. By uncovering buried drives, we can redefine them and make decisions that genuinely benefit our lives. (“Twilight of desire”)9
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.10
- Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.11
- J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
~Do you like him much?
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.12
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.12
- Charlotte Bronte
Villette
I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.'
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.13
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.13
- Mary Balogh
Slightly Dangerous
There isn’t any kind of relationship that’s all problem-free delightful unicorns. You can’t have a relationship without issues and prejudices. The way to be equals is if both people agree to be equals, and treat themselves and each other as equals, despite all that.14
- Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.15
- Alain de Botton
The Course of Love
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.16
- Charles Baxter
El festín del amor
I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!17
- Beyonce Knowles
In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.18
- M. Gigi Durham
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.19
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.20
- P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves in the Morning
I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.21
- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways
I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.22
- Kimberly Novosel
Loved
A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.23
- Myles Munroe
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'00
- Louise Rennison
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
I had a dream about you last night.. You were balancing ten tiny footballs on your nose while dancing with a turquoise unicorn.11
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
You've got an awfully kissable mouth.22
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Girls
But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.33
- Marina Keegan
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.44
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.44
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.55
- Jerzy Kosiński
Steps
I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.66
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.77
- Rob Liano
Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.88
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.88
- Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
When we scan our desires and relationships with awareness and base them on their real-world value, we can free ourselves from irrational attachments and align desires with reason. By uncovering buried drives, we can redefine them and make decisions that genuinely benefit our lives. (“Twilight of desire”)99
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.1010
- Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.1111
- J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
~Do you like him much?
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.1212
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.1212
- Charlotte Bronte
Villette
I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.'
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.1313
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.1313
- Mary Balogh
Slightly Dangerous
There isn’t any kind of relationship that’s all problem-free delightful unicorns. You can’t have a relationship without issues and prejudices. The way to be equals is if both people agree to be equals, and treat themselves and each other as equals, despite all that.1414
- Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.1515
- Alain de Botton
The Course of Love
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.1616
- Charles Baxter
El festín del amor
I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!1717
- Beyonce Knowles
In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.1818
- M. Gigi Durham
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.1919
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.2020
- P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves in the Morning
I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.2121
- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways
I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.2222
- Kimberly Novosel
Loved
A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.2323
- Myles Munroe
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'000
- Louise Rennison
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
I had a dream about you last night.. You were balancing ten tiny footballs on your nose while dancing with a turquoise unicorn.111
- Amy Summers
I Had a Dream About You
You've got an awfully kissable mouth.222
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Girls
But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.333
- Marina Keegan
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.444
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.444
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.555
- Jerzy Kosiński
Steps
I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.666
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.777
- Rob Liano
Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.888
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.888
- Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
When we scan our desires and relationships with awareness and base them on their real-world value, we can free ourselves from irrational attachments and align desires with reason. By uncovering buried drives, we can redefine them and make decisions that genuinely benefit our lives. (“Twilight of desire”)999
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.101010
- Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.111111
- J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
~Do you like him much?
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.121212
~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.
~Is he?
~All boys are.
~More than girls?
~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.121212
- Charlotte Bronte
Villette
I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.'
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.131313
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.131313
- Mary Balogh
Slightly Dangerous
There isn’t any kind of relationship that’s all problem-free delightful unicorns. You can’t have a relationship without issues and prejudices. The way to be equals is if both people agree to be equals, and treat themselves and each other as equals, despite all that.141414
- Sarah Rees Brennan
In Other Lands
Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.151515
- Alain de Botton
The Course of Love
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.161616
- Charles Baxter
El festín del amor
I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!171717
- Beyonce Knowles
In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.181818
- M. Gigi Durham
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.191919
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.202020
- P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves in the Morning
I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.212121
- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways
I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.222222
- Kimberly Novosel
Loved
A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.232323
- Myles Munroe
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship