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
When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.0
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
I had a dream about you last night.. You thought you were a candy vampire, you were standing in the sun screaming 'I'm melting.1
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.2
I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.3
- Patrick Ness
More Than This
I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.4
- Grace Burrowes
The Heir
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?5
- Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked
The smaller we feel in the world, the more we need to shine in the eyes of our partner.6
- Esther Perel
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies. The smell of their skin, its saltiness. The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek. The strong firm hands, the way they rest on the curve of my back.7
- A.M. Harte
Hungry For You
I had a dream about you last night... Well I say dream I mean nightmare... you were a Yankee fan.8
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.9
- Georges Bataille
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.10
Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natural harmony. In the world today, a one-sided development of the male side leads to destructivity. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, exhaustion and a separation from life. A one-sided development of the female side leads to passivity and dependence.11
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will.12
- Richard Ford
The Sportswriter
My mind is never empty of you. Not in waking; not even in dreaming.13
- Ava Reid
A Theory of Dreaming
It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.14
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.15
- bell hooks
Communion: The Female Search for Love
It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving16
- Shilo Niziolek
Broad River Review
The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—17
- P.A. Speers
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with that insatiable passion like you do when you thought you could leave but the sight of my throbbing rock hard love muscle made you too weak in the knees. Your mind is melting fast, your soul is whispering trust, your eyes are begging please and your anger has turned to lust. Let me undress your body, caress your skin and wetly massage your mind back into making love to me again. I’d rather say I’m sorry and keep my best friend than have this come to an end. Be encouraged but more importantly…be lethal with your make up love.18
- Kerry E. Wagner
Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.19
- Tana French
The Secret Place
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.20
- Tom Stoppard
The Real Thing
If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.21
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.22
- Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.23
When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.00
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
I had a dream about you last night.. You thought you were a candy vampire, you were standing in the sun screaming 'I'm melting.11
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.22
I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.33
- Patrick Ness
More Than This
I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.44
- Grace Burrowes
The Heir
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?55
- Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked
The smaller we feel in the world, the more we need to shine in the eyes of our partner.66
- Esther Perel
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies. The smell of their skin, its saltiness. The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek. The strong firm hands, the way they rest on the curve of my back.77
- A.M. Harte
Hungry For You
I had a dream about you last night... Well I say dream I mean nightmare... you were a Yankee fan.88
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.99
- Georges Bataille
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.1010
Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natural harmony. In the world today, a one-sided development of the male side leads to destructivity. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, exhaustion and a separation from life. A one-sided development of the female side leads to passivity and dependence.1111
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will.1212
- Richard Ford
The Sportswriter
My mind is never empty of you. Not in waking; not even in dreaming.1313
- Ava Reid
A Theory of Dreaming
It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.1414
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.1515
- bell hooks
Communion: The Female Search for Love
It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving1616
- Shilo Niziolek
Broad River Review
The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—1717
- P.A. Speers
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with that insatiable passion like you do when you thought you could leave but the sight of my throbbing rock hard love muscle made you too weak in the knees. Your mind is melting fast, your soul is whispering trust, your eyes are begging please and your anger has turned to lust. Let me undress your body, caress your skin and wetly massage your mind back into making love to me again. I’d rather say I’m sorry and keep my best friend than have this come to an end. Be encouraged but more importantly…be lethal with your make up love.1818
- Kerry E. Wagner
Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.1919
- Tana French
The Secret Place
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.2020
- Tom Stoppard
The Real Thing
If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.2121
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.2222
- Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.2323
When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.000
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
I had a dream about you last night.. You thought you were a candy vampire, you were standing in the sun screaming 'I'm melting.111
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.222
I don't believe in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.333
- Patrick Ness
More Than This
I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.444
- Grace Burrowes
The Heir
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?555
- Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked
The smaller we feel in the world, the more we need to shine in the eyes of our partner.666
- Esther Perel
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies. The smell of their skin, its saltiness. The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek. The strong firm hands, the way they rest on the curve of my back.777
- A.M. Harte
Hungry For You
I had a dream about you last night... Well I say dream I mean nightmare... you were a Yankee fan.888
- Nicole McKay
I Had a Dream About You
I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.999
- Georges Bataille
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.101010
Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natural harmony. In the world today, a one-sided development of the male side leads to destructivity. A one-sided development of the male side leads to ego, struggle, exhaustion and a separation from life. A one-sided development of the female side leads to passivity and dependence.111111
- Swami Dhyan Giten
Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will.121212
- Richard Ford
The Sportswriter
My mind is never empty of you. Not in waking; not even in dreaming.131313
- Ava Reid
A Theory of Dreaming
It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.141414
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.151515
- bell hooks
Communion: The Female Search for Love
It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving161616
- Shilo Niziolek
Broad River Review
The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—171717
- P.A. Speers
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with that insatiable passion like you do when you thought you could leave but the sight of my throbbing rock hard love muscle made you too weak in the knees. Your mind is melting fast, your soul is whispering trust, your eyes are begging please and your anger has turned to lust. Let me undress your body, caress your skin and wetly massage your mind back into making love to me again. I’d rather say I’m sorry and keep my best friend than have this come to an end. Be encouraged but more importantly…be lethal with your make up love.181818
- Kerry E. Wagner
Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.191919
- Tana French
The Secret Place
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.202020
- Tom Stoppard
The Real Thing
If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.212121
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.222222
- Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.232323