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 feel what I feel… and I refuse to apologize for it. My heart has its reasons, my soul has its battles, and my truth is mine alone. If that makes you uncomfortable, I can’t help it. If you can’t handle it, stay out of my life.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If Satan existed, he could scarcely do better at seeding pain and destruction than to hide himself within the human mind, saying things like “You’re a failure and a fuckup, nobody understands you, you deserve some escape, you should probably just go drink something, or overeat, or spend a bunch of money, or fuck somebody, or take command over someone else’s existence, or blow up your own life, or just kill yourself—but don’t tell anybody I said any of this.” (Satan: translated from the Hebrew as “the accuser”—a shadowy internal figure I know all too intimately.)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
There are not a lot of women out there who will publicly admit to being sex and love addicts, because it sounds pretty gnarly. In fact, it is gnarly. I won’t get into salacious details here, but I will say that my addiction manifests as a sincere yet deeply misguided belief that somebody outside of myself will miraculously be able to heal me on the inside—thereby making me feel safe, cherished, and whole at last. In real-life terms, this translates as a desperate need to have my existence constantly authenticated and re-authenticated through a romantic partner’s touch, eye contact, verbal reassurance, acts of love, or mere physical presence. How much reassurance is enough for me to finally feel secure? There has never been enough, frankly. There can never be enough.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It’s worth questioning, in every partnership: Who is playing the traditional role of the woman here?—meaning, Who is pouring more care and nourishment into this relationship (or project, or institution)? And who is the beneficiary of all that care and nourishment? And what is the cost to the overgiver?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Because the right love feels like breathing, not begging, not gasping, not performing, not losing yourself for the sake of "us.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
Sometimes it’s not about revenge, not even about seeing them hurt. It’s just that deep inside, you wish they feel it once, the same pain, the same emptiness, the same sleepless nights they left you with.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I will move on someday, but I will never forget how much you made me cry, not because I am still stuck on you, but because those tears taught me who you truly were. You showed me how love can feel worse than hatred, how silence can hurt more than words, and how care can turn into control. One day, my heart will stop aching, but the memory of how you treated me will always stay. And that’s not bitterness, that’s awareness because you were a lesson, not a loss.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
...how did a self-employed construction worker with below-average income purchase so many one-way plane tickets and never get flagged by Homeland Security? Was Keyes a beneficiary of racial profiling? He sometimes traveled with guns, breaking them apart and stashing them in carry-ons, yet was never once questioned by the TSA.
- Maureen Callahan
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Some of us are made to connect with each other, others with no one.
- Olga Ravn
The Employees
The real heartbreak isn’t loud, it’s quiet. It’s when silence takes over everything. When two people who once talked for hours now don’t even know what to say. No anger, no closure, no fights, just a strange distance that can’t be seen but is deeply felt. You still care, but the words don’t come anymore. You still think of them, but the bond feels lost. That’s the kind of heartbreak that hurts the most when love doesn’t end with a goodbye, it just fades into silence.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Here's what they don't tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.
- Marie Lu
Red City
To meet another is also to meet ourselves, and beyond that, to meet the field that holds us both.
- Donna Goddard
Consciousness Rising
Love is who will hold you through the mourning.
You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from pop-war music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.
- Eliot Schrefer
There was a time when every sudden emotion used to shake me. I used to overthink, try to find reasons, and fix what I didn’t even understand. But now, I have stopped reacting to every wave that comes and goes. Because I have realized, not every feeling has a story behind it, not every emotion needs to be understood. Some emotions just appear for a while and then settle down on their own.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
It was a dark and painful time. I knew better, but still allowed it. It led to a special kind of heartbreak… a devastating realization that the only thing we had in common was that we both didn’t love me.
Emotional intelligence is as crucial as intellect. Understanding your own feelings and empathizing with others fosters stronger relationships, better leadership, and more meaningful connections. Self-awareness turns challenges into opportunities for growth.
Love, I realized, was not a promise of safety but a kind of agreement; to hold one another while the world fractured around us.
- Michal Polgar
Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation
It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.
- Glenn Savan
White Palace
He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.
- Glenn Savan
White Palace
Nice to meet you, too. And thank you for ruining your pants for me."
His cheeks flush a deeper pink, and he runs his hand over his face. "Uh, yeah. Anytime."
"Oh, no. I didn't mean it like -- not that you were even saying..." I cover my face, too, which I'm 99 percent sure might actually be engulfed in flames.
His cheeks flush a deeper pink, and he runs his hand over his face. "Uh, yeah. Anytime."
"Oh, no. I didn't mean it like -- not that you were even saying..." I cover my face, too, which I'm 99 percent sure might actually be engulfed in flames.
- Elise Bryant
It's Elementary
..."Like -- there's that whole think they tell you on planes, about putting on your own mask first. Well, l've been putting on everyone's mask -- multitasking, all at the same time -- so none of these goddamn things are secured properly and we're all passing out in the aisles.
- Elise Bryant
It's Elementary
We sat together… and there is a rare kind of magic in watching the sunset with your soulmate. Time slows, the world grows quiet, and all that remains is the breathtaking beauty before you and the warmth of their presence beside you. Sunsets are God’s poetry… a timeless reminder that while the sky may change colors, the heart knows it has found its forever.
When we resist the urge to respond impulsively, and plant ourselves in our center as opposed to grasping at straws outside ourselves, we tap into a wellspring of inner fortitude.
Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.
Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.
- Sol Luckman
Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
I feel what I feel… and I refuse to apologize for it. My heart has its reasons, my soul has its battles, and my truth is mine alone. If that makes you uncomfortable, I can’t help it. If you can’t handle it, stay out of my life.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If Satan existed, he could scarcely do better at seeding pain and destruction than to hide himself within the human mind, saying things like “You’re a failure and a fuckup, nobody understands you, you deserve some escape, you should probably just go drink something, or overeat, or spend a bunch of money, or fuck somebody, or take command over someone else’s existence, or blow up your own life, or just kill yourself—but don’t tell anybody I said any of this.” (Satan: translated from the Hebrew as “the accuser”—a shadowy internal figure I know all too intimately.)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
There are not a lot of women out there who will publicly admit to being sex and love addicts, because it sounds pretty gnarly. In fact, it is gnarly. I won’t get into salacious details here, but I will say that my addiction manifests as a sincere yet deeply misguided belief that somebody outside of myself will miraculously be able to heal me on the inside—thereby making me feel safe, cherished, and whole at last. In real-life terms, this translates as a desperate need to have my existence constantly authenticated and re-authenticated through a romantic partner’s touch, eye contact, verbal reassurance, acts of love, or mere physical presence. How much reassurance is enough for me to finally feel secure? There has never been enough, frankly. There can never be enough.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It’s worth questioning, in every partnership: Who is playing the traditional role of the woman here?—meaning, Who is pouring more care and nourishment into this relationship (or project, or institution)? And who is the beneficiary of all that care and nourishment? And what is the cost to the overgiver?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Because the right love feels like breathing, not begging, not gasping, not performing, not losing yourself for the sake of "us.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
Sometimes it’s not about revenge, not even about seeing them hurt. It’s just that deep inside, you wish they feel it once, the same pain, the same emptiness, the same sleepless nights they left you with.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I will move on someday, but I will never forget how much you made me cry, not because I am still stuck on you, but because those tears taught me who you truly were. You showed me how love can feel worse than hatred, how silence can hurt more than words, and how care can turn into control. One day, my heart will stop aching, but the memory of how you treated me will always stay. And that’s not bitterness, that’s awareness because you were a lesson, not a loss.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
...how did a self-employed construction worker with below-average income purchase so many one-way plane tickets and never get flagged by Homeland Security? Was Keyes a beneficiary of racial profiling? He sometimes traveled with guns, breaking them apart and stashing them in carry-ons, yet was never once questioned by the TSA.
- Maureen Callahan
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Some of us are made to connect with each other, others with no one.
- Olga Ravn
The Employees
The real heartbreak isn’t loud, it’s quiet. It’s when silence takes over everything. When two people who once talked for hours now don’t even know what to say. No anger, no closure, no fights, just a strange distance that can’t be seen but is deeply felt. You still care, but the words don’t come anymore. You still think of them, but the bond feels lost. That’s the kind of heartbreak that hurts the most when love doesn’t end with a goodbye, it just fades into silence.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Here's what they don't tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.
- Marie Lu
Red City
To meet another is also to meet ourselves, and beyond that, to meet the field that holds us both.
- Donna Goddard
Consciousness Rising
Love is who will hold you through the mourning.
You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from pop-war music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.
- Eliot Schrefer
There was a time when every sudden emotion used to shake me. I used to overthink, try to find reasons, and fix what I didn’t even understand. But now, I have stopped reacting to every wave that comes and goes. Because I have realized, not every feeling has a story behind it, not every emotion needs to be understood. Some emotions just appear for a while and then settle down on their own.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
It was a dark and painful time. I knew better, but still allowed it. It led to a special kind of heartbreak… a devastating realization that the only thing we had in common was that we both didn’t love me.
Emotional intelligence is as crucial as intellect. Understanding your own feelings and empathizing with others fosters stronger relationships, better leadership, and more meaningful connections. Self-awareness turns challenges into opportunities for growth.
Love, I realized, was not a promise of safety but a kind of agreement; to hold one another while the world fractured around us.
- Michal Polgar
Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation
It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.
- Glenn Savan
White Palace
He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.
- Glenn Savan
White Palace
Nice to meet you, too. And thank you for ruining your pants for me."
His cheeks flush a deeper pink, and he runs his hand over his face. "Uh, yeah. Anytime."
"Oh, no. I didn't mean it like -- not that you were even saying..." I cover my face, too, which I'm 99 percent sure might actually be engulfed in flames.
His cheeks flush a deeper pink, and he runs his hand over his face. "Uh, yeah. Anytime."
"Oh, no. I didn't mean it like -- not that you were even saying..." I cover my face, too, which I'm 99 percent sure might actually be engulfed in flames.
- Elise Bryant
It's Elementary
..."Like -- there's that whole think they tell you on planes, about putting on your own mask first. Well, l've been putting on everyone's mask -- multitasking, all at the same time -- so none of these goddamn things are secured properly and we're all passing out in the aisles.
- Elise Bryant
It's Elementary
We sat together… and there is a rare kind of magic in watching the sunset with your soulmate. Time slows, the world grows quiet, and all that remains is the breathtaking beauty before you and the warmth of their presence beside you. Sunsets are God’s poetry… a timeless reminder that while the sky may change colors, the heart knows it has found its forever.
When we resist the urge to respond impulsively, and plant ourselves in our center as opposed to grasping at straws outside ourselves, we tap into a wellspring of inner fortitude.
Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.
Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.
- Sol Luckman
Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
I feel what I feel… and I refuse to apologize for it. My heart has its reasons, my soul has its battles, and my truth is mine alone. If that makes you uncomfortable, I can’t help it. If you can’t handle it, stay out of my life.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
If Satan existed, he could scarcely do better at seeding pain and destruction than to hide himself within the human mind, saying things like “You’re a failure and a fuckup, nobody understands you, you deserve some escape, you should probably just go drink something, or overeat, or spend a bunch of money, or fuck somebody, or take command over someone else’s existence, or blow up your own life, or just kill yourself—but don’t tell anybody I said any of this.” (Satan: translated from the Hebrew as “the accuser”—a shadowy internal figure I know all too intimately.)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
There are not a lot of women out there who will publicly admit to being sex and love addicts, because it sounds pretty gnarly. In fact, it is gnarly. I won’t get into salacious details here, but I will say that my addiction manifests as a sincere yet deeply misguided belief that somebody outside of myself will miraculously be able to heal me on the inside—thereby making me feel safe, cherished, and whole at last. In real-life terms, this translates as a desperate need to have my existence constantly authenticated and re-authenticated through a romantic partner’s touch, eye contact, verbal reassurance, acts of love, or mere physical presence. How much reassurance is enough for me to finally feel secure? There has never been enough, frankly. There can never be enough.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
It’s worth questioning, in every partnership: Who is playing the traditional role of the woman here?—meaning, Who is pouring more care and nourishment into this relationship (or project, or institution)? And who is the beneficiary of all that care and nourishment? And what is the cost to the overgiver?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Because the right love feels like breathing, not begging, not gasping, not performing, not losing yourself for the sake of "us.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
Sometimes it’s not about revenge, not even about seeing them hurt. It’s just that deep inside, you wish they feel it once, the same pain, the same emptiness, the same sleepless nights they left you with.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I will move on someday, but I will never forget how much you made me cry, not because I am still stuck on you, but because those tears taught me who you truly were. You showed me how love can feel worse than hatred, how silence can hurt more than words, and how care can turn into control. One day, my heart will stop aching, but the memory of how you treated me will always stay. And that’s not bitterness, that’s awareness because you were a lesson, not a loss.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
...how did a self-employed construction worker with below-average income purchase so many one-way plane tickets and never get flagged by Homeland Security? Was Keyes a beneficiary of racial profiling? He sometimes traveled with guns, breaking them apart and stashing them in carry-ons, yet was never once questioned by the TSA.
- Maureen Callahan
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Some of us are made to connect with each other, others with no one.
- Olga Ravn
The Employees
The real heartbreak isn’t loud, it’s quiet. It’s when silence takes over everything. When two people who once talked for hours now don’t even know what to say. No anger, no closure, no fights, just a strange distance that can’t be seen but is deeply felt. You still care, but the words don’t come anymore. You still think of them, but the bond feels lost. That’s the kind of heartbreak that hurts the most when love doesn’t end with a goodbye, it just fades into silence.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Here's what they don't tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.
- Marie Lu
Red City
To meet another is also to meet ourselves, and beyond that, to meet the field that holds us both.
- Donna Goddard
Consciousness Rising
Love is who will hold you through the mourning.
You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from pop-war music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.
Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.
- Eliot Schrefer
There was a time when every sudden emotion used to shake me. I used to overthink, try to find reasons, and fix what I didn’t even understand. But now, I have stopped reacting to every wave that comes and goes. Because I have realized, not every feeling has a story behind it, not every emotion needs to be understood. Some emotions just appear for a while and then settle down on their own.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
It was a dark and painful time. I knew better, but still allowed it. It led to a special kind of heartbreak… a devastating realization that the only thing we had in common was that we both didn’t love me.
Emotional intelligence is as crucial as intellect. Understanding your own feelings and empathizing with others fosters stronger relationships, better leadership, and more meaningful connections. Self-awareness turns challenges into opportunities for growth.
Love, I realized, was not a promise of safety but a kind of agreement; to hold one another while the world fractured around us.
- Michal Polgar
Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation
It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.
- Glenn Savan
White Palace
He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.
- Glenn Savan
White Palace
Nice to meet you, too. And thank you for ruining your pants for me."
His cheeks flush a deeper pink, and he runs his hand over his face. "Uh, yeah. Anytime."
"Oh, no. I didn't mean it like -- not that you were even saying..." I cover my face, too, which I'm 99 percent sure might actually be engulfed in flames.
His cheeks flush a deeper pink, and he runs his hand over his face. "Uh, yeah. Anytime."
"Oh, no. I didn't mean it like -- not that you were even saying..." I cover my face, too, which I'm 99 percent sure might actually be engulfed in flames.
- Elise Bryant
It's Elementary
..."Like -- there's that whole think they tell you on planes, about putting on your own mask first. Well, l've been putting on everyone's mask -- multitasking, all at the same time -- so none of these goddamn things are secured properly and we're all passing out in the aisles.
- Elise Bryant
It's Elementary
We sat together… and there is a rare kind of magic in watching the sunset with your soulmate. Time slows, the world grows quiet, and all that remains is the breathtaking beauty before you and the warmth of their presence beside you. Sunsets are God’s poetry… a timeless reminder that while the sky may change colors, the heart knows it has found its forever.
When we resist the urge to respond impulsively, and plant ourselves in our center as opposed to grasping at straws outside ourselves, we tap into a wellspring of inner fortitude.
Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.
Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.
- Sol Luckman
Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality