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
Rather than trying to rationalize everything, why don't you do me a favor and just start feeling?
- A.D. Dumas
Bound by Secrets
Oh, come on. I'm kidding. Your situation is very different from mine. I mean, Jane was a poet. No one, under any circumstances, should ever live with a poet.
- Grant Ginder
Let's Not Do That Again
Real people are over there," he said, pointing to the museum. "And they're messy, imperfect, odd, sometimes infuriating, and at other times completely brilliant. But you'll never find real people in that nice, tidy concept you've built for yourself in your mind. You have to get out and join them.
- Jim Ferrell
You and We: A Relational Rethinking of Work, Life, and Leadership
When I look at a person—at Zane in this case—I think I am seeing Zane. But what I am missing is the fact I am seeing Zane. And since I am the person who is seeing, I'm not seeing a world that is separate from me but am rather seeing my own interaction with the world. So, what I'm seeing is not Zane per se, but rather my relational intersection with him. In fact, relationality goes even further than that. It's not just that I am seeing Zane; it's also that I'm seeing a Zane who is in response to me.
- Jim Ferrell
You and We: A Relational Rethinking of Work, Life, and Leadership
The game only ends when you stop pretending there isn’t one.
- Cain Blackwood
The Female Code: Power, Influence & the Art of Manipulation
Among the things that have made my life so fulfilling are the people I have met and built relationships with on six continents.
- Neil Ghosh
Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People
We thought we were dying… but love had other plans.
- Kamary Phillips
Terminal Love: They Found Each Other at the End of Everything
She paused to sniff the air and made a face. "Is something burning?"
....It was my first shift alone in a busy kitchen and I suddenly understood why all chefs I'd ever worked with hated front of the house. It took every part of me not to fling a pizza cutter across the kitchen like ninja star.
....It was my first shift alone in a busy kitchen and I suddenly understood why all chefs I'd ever worked with hated front of the house. It took every part of me not to fling a pizza cutter across the kitchen like ninja star.
- Michelle Zauner
Crying in H Mart
We've come to use the word "evolution" as though it were a resolutely positive thing, but all it means is that the species best-adapted for a particular environment survive, and the others die out.
- Asako Yuzuki
Butter
Caring for, supporting and warming the hearts of men is women's god-given role, and, without fail, performing it makes women beautiful. They become godesses.
- Asako Yuzuki
Butter
If Eddie had been Riley’s friend, he wasn’t that for Andrew. That friendship was a muted fraction of the real thing, the marrow-thing, that tied them together. Through the cavern and their hauntings since, through a life spent with Eddie keeping him leashed but cared for at the same time, he couldn’t find a label that fit where he needed it to go. Maybe instead, just a hard stop: he was yours.
- Lee Mandelo
Summer Sons
Real love isn't born of perfection. It's built on truth, on showing up as you are, on loving someone whole—shadows, scars, and all
- Yurii Ivchenko
The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
In the garden there were small hard pears that you could lift from a tree, and tulips and peonies and hot pink azaleas that vexed me with their greedy bloom.
- Regina Porter
The Travelers
Sometimes the scariest thing in love is not having uncomfortable conversations. It’s the silence that replaces every conversation.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Those who forgive a cheater gets cheated again.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I am, in short, and absolute sucker for beautiful people with even a hint of authority.
- Mazey Eddings
Late Bloomer
Every relationship is a journey to find your path or lose yourself. Every interaction is a learning experience of love or fear.
- J.R. Incer
Healing from toxic relationship trauma
is like realizing you spent your entire life
eating and having allergic reactions to
rotten tomatoes when life is a buffet and you’re in the wrong restaurant.
is like realizing you spent your entire life
eating and having allergic reactions to
rotten tomatoes when life is a buffet and you’re in the wrong restaurant.
- Pamela Storch
People are not good or evil. They are good AND evil. That does not make abuse any less harmful, or love any less real. In order to heal, we must understand that BOTH love and abuse can genuinely be present in a relationship, and love does not remove the need to take action when harmful behavior is present.
- Pamela Storch
You can't fully love, without a little violence
- Richard Rizo
Random Acts of Love and Violence: A Journey Through Love, Heartbreak, and the Unknown
[She was] the kind of woman who wanted to have it all...But the problem is, once you love someone, you can't have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice. That's how it works.
- Emily Henry
Great Big Beautiful Life
Some people aren’t a cure. They’re the reason you want to heal.
- Abdul Arham
The Whisper Between Us
Sometimes, healing makes you realize that you deserve better – better treatment, a better relationship, and a better life. However, the only reason you're holding onto the old is because it has become your comfort zone. Remember, magic happens when you decide that enough is enough and take action to step away from what's not serving you and your higher self.
- Vishakha Jain
Sometimes..: 101 Days of Healing Through Words
...We'll rent you a bike and it will all come back to you." Maureen does not believe in magic. Still ,she has a new filling and her mouth feels rational. Maybe she could learn to ride a bike again.
- Regina Porter
The Rich People Have Gone Away
Rather than trying to rationalize everything, why don't you do me a favor and just start feeling?
- A.D. Dumas
Bound by Secrets
Oh, come on. I'm kidding. Your situation is very different from mine. I mean, Jane was a poet. No one, under any circumstances, should ever live with a poet.
- Grant Ginder
Let's Not Do That Again
Real people are over there," he said, pointing to the museum. "And they're messy, imperfect, odd, sometimes infuriating, and at other times completely brilliant. But you'll never find real people in that nice, tidy concept you've built for yourself in your mind. You have to get out and join them.
- Jim Ferrell
You and We: A Relational Rethinking of Work, Life, and Leadership
When I look at a person—at Zane in this case—I think I am seeing Zane. But what I am missing is the fact I am seeing Zane. And since I am the person who is seeing, I'm not seeing a world that is separate from me but am rather seeing my own interaction with the world. So, what I'm seeing is not Zane per se, but rather my relational intersection with him. In fact, relationality goes even further than that. It's not just that I am seeing Zane; it's also that I'm seeing a Zane who is in response to me.
- Jim Ferrell
You and We: A Relational Rethinking of Work, Life, and Leadership
The game only ends when you stop pretending there isn’t one.
- Cain Blackwood
The Female Code: Power, Influence & the Art of Manipulation
Among the things that have made my life so fulfilling are the people I have met and built relationships with on six continents.
- Neil Ghosh
Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People
We thought we were dying… but love had other plans.
- Kamary Phillips
Terminal Love: They Found Each Other at the End of Everything
She paused to sniff the air and made a face. "Is something burning?"
....It was my first shift alone in a busy kitchen and I suddenly understood why all chefs I'd ever worked with hated front of the house. It took every part of me not to fling a pizza cutter across the kitchen like ninja star.
....It was my first shift alone in a busy kitchen and I suddenly understood why all chefs I'd ever worked with hated front of the house. It took every part of me not to fling a pizza cutter across the kitchen like ninja star.
- Michelle Zauner
Crying in H Mart
We've come to use the word "evolution" as though it were a resolutely positive thing, but all it means is that the species best-adapted for a particular environment survive, and the others die out.
- Asako Yuzuki
Butter
Caring for, supporting and warming the hearts of men is women's god-given role, and, without fail, performing it makes women beautiful. They become godesses.
- Asako Yuzuki
Butter
If Eddie had been Riley’s friend, he wasn’t that for Andrew. That friendship was a muted fraction of the real thing, the marrow-thing, that tied them together. Through the cavern and their hauntings since, through a life spent with Eddie keeping him leashed but cared for at the same time, he couldn’t find a label that fit where he needed it to go. Maybe instead, just a hard stop: he was yours.
- Lee Mandelo
Summer Sons
Real love isn't born of perfection. It's built on truth, on showing up as you are, on loving someone whole—shadows, scars, and all
- Yurii Ivchenko
The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
In the garden there were small hard pears that you could lift from a tree, and tulips and peonies and hot pink azaleas that vexed me with their greedy bloom.
- Regina Porter
The Travelers
Sometimes the scariest thing in love is not having uncomfortable conversations. It’s the silence that replaces every conversation.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Those who forgive a cheater gets cheated again.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I am, in short, and absolute sucker for beautiful people with even a hint of authority.
- Mazey Eddings
Late Bloomer
Every relationship is a journey to find your path or lose yourself. Every interaction is a learning experience of love or fear.
- J.R. Incer
Healing from toxic relationship trauma
is like realizing you spent your entire life
eating and having allergic reactions to
rotten tomatoes when life is a buffet and you’re in the wrong restaurant.
is like realizing you spent your entire life
eating and having allergic reactions to
rotten tomatoes when life is a buffet and you’re in the wrong restaurant.
- Pamela Storch
People are not good or evil. They are good AND evil. That does not make abuse any less harmful, or love any less real. In order to heal, we must understand that BOTH love and abuse can genuinely be present in a relationship, and love does not remove the need to take action when harmful behavior is present.
- Pamela Storch
You can't fully love, without a little violence
- Richard Rizo
Random Acts of Love and Violence: A Journey Through Love, Heartbreak, and the Unknown
[She was] the kind of woman who wanted to have it all...But the problem is, once you love someone, you can't have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice. That's how it works.
- Emily Henry
Great Big Beautiful Life
Some people aren’t a cure. They’re the reason you want to heal.
- Abdul Arham
The Whisper Between Us
Sometimes, healing makes you realize that you deserve better – better treatment, a better relationship, and a better life. However, the only reason you're holding onto the old is because it has become your comfort zone. Remember, magic happens when you decide that enough is enough and take action to step away from what's not serving you and your higher self.
- Vishakha Jain
Sometimes..: 101 Days of Healing Through Words
...We'll rent you a bike and it will all come back to you." Maureen does not believe in magic. Still ,she has a new filling and her mouth feels rational. Maybe she could learn to ride a bike again.
- Regina Porter
The Rich People Have Gone Away
Rather than trying to rationalize everything, why don't you do me a favor and just start feeling?
- A.D. Dumas
Bound by Secrets
Oh, come on. I'm kidding. Your situation is very different from mine. I mean, Jane was a poet. No one, under any circumstances, should ever live with a poet.
- Grant Ginder
Let's Not Do That Again
Real people are over there," he said, pointing to the museum. "And they're messy, imperfect, odd, sometimes infuriating, and at other times completely brilliant. But you'll never find real people in that nice, tidy concept you've built for yourself in your mind. You have to get out and join them.
- Jim Ferrell
You and We: A Relational Rethinking of Work, Life, and Leadership
When I look at a person—at Zane in this case—I think I am seeing Zane. But what I am missing is the fact I am seeing Zane. And since I am the person who is seeing, I'm not seeing a world that is separate from me but am rather seeing my own interaction with the world. So, what I'm seeing is not Zane per se, but rather my relational intersection with him. In fact, relationality goes even further than that. It's not just that I am seeing Zane; it's also that I'm seeing a Zane who is in response to me.
- Jim Ferrell
You and We: A Relational Rethinking of Work, Life, and Leadership
The game only ends when you stop pretending there isn’t one.
- Cain Blackwood
The Female Code: Power, Influence & the Art of Manipulation
Among the things that have made my life so fulfilling are the people I have met and built relationships with on six continents.
- Neil Ghosh
Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People
We thought we were dying… but love had other plans.
- Kamary Phillips
Terminal Love: They Found Each Other at the End of Everything
She paused to sniff the air and made a face. "Is something burning?"
....It was my first shift alone in a busy kitchen and I suddenly understood why all chefs I'd ever worked with hated front of the house. It took every part of me not to fling a pizza cutter across the kitchen like ninja star.
....It was my first shift alone in a busy kitchen and I suddenly understood why all chefs I'd ever worked with hated front of the house. It took every part of me not to fling a pizza cutter across the kitchen like ninja star.
- Michelle Zauner
Crying in H Mart
We've come to use the word "evolution" as though it were a resolutely positive thing, but all it means is that the species best-adapted for a particular environment survive, and the others die out.
- Asako Yuzuki
Butter
Caring for, supporting and warming the hearts of men is women's god-given role, and, without fail, performing it makes women beautiful. They become godesses.
- Asako Yuzuki
Butter
If Eddie had been Riley’s friend, he wasn’t that for Andrew. That friendship was a muted fraction of the real thing, the marrow-thing, that tied them together. Through the cavern and their hauntings since, through a life spent with Eddie keeping him leashed but cared for at the same time, he couldn’t find a label that fit where he needed it to go. Maybe instead, just a hard stop: he was yours.
- Lee Mandelo
Summer Sons
Real love isn't born of perfection. It's built on truth, on showing up as you are, on loving someone whole—shadows, scars, and all
- Yurii Ivchenko
The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
In the garden there were small hard pears that you could lift from a tree, and tulips and peonies and hot pink azaleas that vexed me with their greedy bloom.
- Regina Porter
The Travelers
Sometimes the scariest thing in love is not having uncomfortable conversations. It’s the silence that replaces every conversation.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Those who forgive a cheater gets cheated again.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I am, in short, and absolute sucker for beautiful people with even a hint of authority.
- Mazey Eddings
Late Bloomer
Every relationship is a journey to find your path or lose yourself. Every interaction is a learning experience of love or fear.
- J.R. Incer
Healing from toxic relationship trauma
is like realizing you spent your entire life
eating and having allergic reactions to
rotten tomatoes when life is a buffet and you’re in the wrong restaurant.
is like realizing you spent your entire life
eating and having allergic reactions to
rotten tomatoes when life is a buffet and you’re in the wrong restaurant.
- Pamela Storch
People are not good or evil. They are good AND evil. That does not make abuse any less harmful, or love any less real. In order to heal, we must understand that BOTH love and abuse can genuinely be present in a relationship, and love does not remove the need to take action when harmful behavior is present.
- Pamela Storch
You can't fully love, without a little violence
- Richard Rizo
Random Acts of Love and Violence: A Journey Through Love, Heartbreak, and the Unknown
[She was] the kind of woman who wanted to have it all...But the problem is, once you love someone, you can't have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice. That's how it works.
- Emily Henry
Great Big Beautiful Life
Some people aren’t a cure. They’re the reason you want to heal.
- Abdul Arham
The Whisper Between Us
Sometimes, healing makes you realize that you deserve better – better treatment, a better relationship, and a better life. However, the only reason you're holding onto the old is because it has become your comfort zone. Remember, magic happens when you decide that enough is enough and take action to step away from what's not serving you and your higher self.
- Vishakha Jain
Sometimes..: 101 Days of Healing Through Words
...We'll rent you a bike and it will all come back to you." Maureen does not believe in magic. Still ,she has a new filling and her mouth feels rational. Maybe she could learn to ride a bike again.
- Regina Porter
The Rich People Have Gone Away