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
They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.
- Christopher Paolini
Brisingr
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
- Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
- Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
- Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
The woman's name turned out to be Sarit, and the next day Daniel made them go to the funeral. He said they needed closure, and that as far as he was concerned, it was either a funeral or couples therapy. Romi had no desire to go to the funeral, but therapy sounded even worse, like a cross between mud wrestling and divorce court.
- Etgar Keret
Autocorrect: Stories
Love doesn't ask permission to complicate your life. It just shows up, uninvited, and dares you to be brave enough to let it stay.
- Rajesh Debbarma
The Line Between Us: A Heartbreaking Contemporary Romance About First Love, Illness, Loss, and Lines We Cross for Love
“People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”
- Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
You know, sometimes even we mess up in relationships, and instead of accepting it, we start blaming the other person. But deep down, we know the truth that it was us who was wrong. You know, hurting someone just to escape our own guilt doesn’t fix anything, it only makes things worse, and sometimes, irreparable.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
....that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population weren't a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an entity in power that at least partially shared the government's disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation of Hamas.
- Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
I asked for small things, but even that became too much for you. So I told myself to expect less and then eventually accepted to expect nothing from you. And in that process, I stopped caring about what you wanted from me. You know the truth is simple, people change when they feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s what happened to me and that's why, your expectations don’t matter to me anymore and neither do you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Human relations are also like learning to swim… one begins in fear, keeps thrashing against something that feels infinite, gets panicked. And when you calm yourself down and stop resisting… surrendering to the symphony of it… it is only then when you start to stay afloat.
- Sam P. Grace
YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation.
I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I will smile again, that’s for sure. But I will never forget the nights I cried because of you, the nights I waited for a message that never came, the nights I questioned my worth for someone who didn’t care. Those nights broke me in ways no one saw, but they also made me stronger in ways you will never understand. I will smile again, and when I do, it will hurt you because you will realize the person you once took for granted learned to live better without you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Once Rayya got clean and sober, she never judged people, no matter how badly they were acting out. She never condemned them—not even when she was angry or frustrated with them, not even when she was setting boundaries with them—because she knew what it was like to be at the very bottom. She knew what it was like to be feared and despised. She knew what it was like to live completely outside of your own integrity, a million miles away from your heart. As she said to me once, “Until you’ve stolen money from your father’s wallet to buy heroin while he was sick in a hospital bed, you don’t know what it feels like to need to be forgiven.” She also used to say, “Mercy is what I owe, because mercy is what I always needed—and mercy is what I have been given.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
From what I now understand, given the latest neurological research, people like me—people with process addictions—have nervous systems that don’t work quite right. Many of us, having experienced at a young age what are officially referred to as “consistent disruptions of safety,” have trouble regulating our own emotions, taking care of ourselves, telling fantasy from reality, understanding the concept of boundaries, knowing whom to trust, and distinguishing our feelings from other people’s feelings. As a result, we can end up with an attachment style that is sometimes referred to as “disordered-disoriented”—which describes my romantic history perfectly.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Your life will slip away if you don’t share it with anyone, she said. And I’d explained how you could hold onto a moment. But you can’t use it to hold onto people, I said, because they can always just get up and walk out of view.
- Jente Posthuma
What I'd Rather Not Think About
We chose wisdom over want. We chose healing over history. We chose separate futures over shared wreckage. And it feels like dying.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
Relationships don’t fall apart in a day, they fade slowly, almost quietly. It starts when effort turns into assumption, when conversations become shorter, and care feels routine. Love alone is never enough, it needs patience, communication, and small acts of effort every single day. The truth is, distance doesn’t always begin with fights, it begins with silence, with “maybe tomorrow.” And before we even notice, the bond that once felt unbreakable starts to feel distant. Because every relationship survives on effort, not emotion.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Nudity isn’t beauty—it’s an illusion, one that often disappears at the end of a sexual night. It cannot nourish the soul; it satisfies only the body’s temporary hunger. And this is why so many relationships today have such short lives—because they begin with the attraction of nudity, not the depth of inner beauty.
- Mohammed Zaki Ansari
"Zaki's Gift Of Love"
You don’t lose your worth because someone couldn’t meet you where you stood.
- Katerina Markadakis
Legacy of Letting Go: A Journal for Those Healing from Love That Could Not Stay
Yes, I felt like telling you the truth, but I couldn’t gather the courage. Not because I wanted to hide, but because I was scared, scared of losing you, scared of being misunderstood. I know it was my fault, and I will take that. But my intentions were never wrong. Everything I did came from a place of care, not selfishness. Sometimes we make mistakes not out of a bad heart, but out of fear. And that fear costs us the people we never wanted to lose.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I agree with you because I don’t want to argue or fight, not because you are right. Sometimes peace feels more important than proving a point. I have learned that not every truth needs to be spoken, not every misunderstanding needs to be cleared. Some people only listen to reply, not to understand. So I stay quiet, not out of weakness, but out of wisdom. Because I have realized that keeping my peace is worth more than winning any argument.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.
- Aja Gabel
Lightbreakers
They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.
- Christopher Paolini
Brisingr
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
- Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
- Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
- Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
The woman's name turned out to be Sarit, and the next day Daniel made them go to the funeral. He said they needed closure, and that as far as he was concerned, it was either a funeral or couples therapy. Romi had no desire to go to the funeral, but therapy sounded even worse, like a cross between mud wrestling and divorce court.
- Etgar Keret
Autocorrect: Stories
Love doesn't ask permission to complicate your life. It just shows up, uninvited, and dares you to be brave enough to let it stay.
- Rajesh Debbarma
The Line Between Us: A Heartbreaking Contemporary Romance About First Love, Illness, Loss, and Lines We Cross for Love
“People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”
- Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
You know, sometimes even we mess up in relationships, and instead of accepting it, we start blaming the other person. But deep down, we know the truth that it was us who was wrong. You know, hurting someone just to escape our own guilt doesn’t fix anything, it only makes things worse, and sometimes, irreparable.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
....that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population weren't a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an entity in power that at least partially shared the government's disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation of Hamas.
- Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
I asked for small things, but even that became too much for you. So I told myself to expect less and then eventually accepted to expect nothing from you. And in that process, I stopped caring about what you wanted from me. You know the truth is simple, people change when they feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s what happened to me and that's why, your expectations don’t matter to me anymore and neither do you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Human relations are also like learning to swim… one begins in fear, keeps thrashing against something that feels infinite, gets panicked. And when you calm yourself down and stop resisting… surrendering to the symphony of it… it is only then when you start to stay afloat.
- Sam P. Grace
YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation.
I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I will smile again, that’s for sure. But I will never forget the nights I cried because of you, the nights I waited for a message that never came, the nights I questioned my worth for someone who didn’t care. Those nights broke me in ways no one saw, but they also made me stronger in ways you will never understand. I will smile again, and when I do, it will hurt you because you will realize the person you once took for granted learned to live better without you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Once Rayya got clean and sober, she never judged people, no matter how badly they were acting out. She never condemned them—not even when she was angry or frustrated with them, not even when she was setting boundaries with them—because she knew what it was like to be at the very bottom. She knew what it was like to be feared and despised. She knew what it was like to live completely outside of your own integrity, a million miles away from your heart. As she said to me once, “Until you’ve stolen money from your father’s wallet to buy heroin while he was sick in a hospital bed, you don’t know what it feels like to need to be forgiven.” She also used to say, “Mercy is what I owe, because mercy is what I always needed—and mercy is what I have been given.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
From what I now understand, given the latest neurological research, people like me—people with process addictions—have nervous systems that don’t work quite right. Many of us, having experienced at a young age what are officially referred to as “consistent disruptions of safety,” have trouble regulating our own emotions, taking care of ourselves, telling fantasy from reality, understanding the concept of boundaries, knowing whom to trust, and distinguishing our feelings from other people’s feelings. As a result, we can end up with an attachment style that is sometimes referred to as “disordered-disoriented”—which describes my romantic history perfectly.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Your life will slip away if you don’t share it with anyone, she said. And I’d explained how you could hold onto a moment. But you can’t use it to hold onto people, I said, because they can always just get up and walk out of view.
- Jente Posthuma
What I'd Rather Not Think About
We chose wisdom over want. We chose healing over history. We chose separate futures over shared wreckage. And it feels like dying.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
Relationships don’t fall apart in a day, they fade slowly, almost quietly. It starts when effort turns into assumption, when conversations become shorter, and care feels routine. Love alone is never enough, it needs patience, communication, and small acts of effort every single day. The truth is, distance doesn’t always begin with fights, it begins with silence, with “maybe tomorrow.” And before we even notice, the bond that once felt unbreakable starts to feel distant. Because every relationship survives on effort, not emotion.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Nudity isn’t beauty—it’s an illusion, one that often disappears at the end of a sexual night. It cannot nourish the soul; it satisfies only the body’s temporary hunger. And this is why so many relationships today have such short lives—because they begin with the attraction of nudity, not the depth of inner beauty.
- Mohammed Zaki Ansari
"Zaki's Gift Of Love"
You don’t lose your worth because someone couldn’t meet you where you stood.
- Katerina Markadakis
Legacy of Letting Go: A Journal for Those Healing from Love That Could Not Stay
Yes, I felt like telling you the truth, but I couldn’t gather the courage. Not because I wanted to hide, but because I was scared, scared of losing you, scared of being misunderstood. I know it was my fault, and I will take that. But my intentions were never wrong. Everything I did came from a place of care, not selfishness. Sometimes we make mistakes not out of a bad heart, but out of fear. And that fear costs us the people we never wanted to lose.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I agree with you because I don’t want to argue or fight, not because you are right. Sometimes peace feels more important than proving a point. I have learned that not every truth needs to be spoken, not every misunderstanding needs to be cleared. Some people only listen to reply, not to understand. So I stay quiet, not out of weakness, but out of wisdom. Because I have realized that keeping my peace is worth more than winning any argument.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.
- Aja Gabel
Lightbreakers
They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.
- Christopher Paolini
Brisingr
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
- Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
- Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
- Chris Crutcher
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
The woman's name turned out to be Sarit, and the next day Daniel made them go to the funeral. He said they needed closure, and that as far as he was concerned, it was either a funeral or couples therapy. Romi had no desire to go to the funeral, but therapy sounded even worse, like a cross between mud wrestling and divorce court.
- Etgar Keret
Autocorrect: Stories
Love doesn't ask permission to complicate your life. It just shows up, uninvited, and dares you to be brave enough to let it stay.
- Rajesh Debbarma
The Line Between Us: A Heartbreaking Contemporary Romance About First Love, Illness, Loss, and Lines We Cross for Love
“People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to be amiable! There is at Christmas a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”
- Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
You know, sometimes even we mess up in relationships, and instead of accepting it, we start blaming the other person. But deep down, we know the truth that it was us who was wrong. You know, hurting someone just to escape our own guilt doesn’t fix anything, it only makes things worse, and sometimes, irreparable.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
....that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population weren't a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an entity in power that at least partially shared the government's disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation of Hamas.
- Omar El Akkad
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
I asked for small things, but even that became too much for you. So I told myself to expect less and then eventually accepted to expect nothing from you. And in that process, I stopped caring about what you wanted from me. You know the truth is simple, people change when they feel unheard and misunderstood. That’s what happened to me and that's why, your expectations don’t matter to me anymore and neither do you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Human relations are also like learning to swim… one begins in fear, keeps thrashing against something that feels infinite, gets panicked. And when you calm yourself down and stop resisting… surrendering to the symphony of it… it is only then when you start to stay afloat.
- Sam P. Grace
YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation.
I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, not my answers, not my presence. You had your chance, you wasted it, and now you want clarity from the same person you once took for granted. I walked away for a reason. And no, I don’t owe you a single thing anymore.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I will smile again, that’s for sure. But I will never forget the nights I cried because of you, the nights I waited for a message that never came, the nights I questioned my worth for someone who didn’t care. Those nights broke me in ways no one saw, but they also made me stronger in ways you will never understand. I will smile again, and when I do, it will hurt you because you will realize the person you once took for granted learned to live better without you.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Once Rayya got clean and sober, she never judged people, no matter how badly they were acting out. She never condemned them—not even when she was angry or frustrated with them, not even when she was setting boundaries with them—because she knew what it was like to be at the very bottom. She knew what it was like to be feared and despised. She knew what it was like to live completely outside of your own integrity, a million miles away from your heart. As she said to me once, “Until you’ve stolen money from your father’s wallet to buy heroin while he was sick in a hospital bed, you don’t know what it feels like to need to be forgiven.” She also used to say, “Mercy is what I owe, because mercy is what I always needed—and mercy is what I have been given.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
From what I now understand, given the latest neurological research, people like me—people with process addictions—have nervous systems that don’t work quite right. Many of us, having experienced at a young age what are officially referred to as “consistent disruptions of safety,” have trouble regulating our own emotions, taking care of ourselves, telling fantasy from reality, understanding the concept of boundaries, knowing whom to trust, and distinguishing our feelings from other people’s feelings. As a result, we can end up with an attachment style that is sometimes referred to as “disordered-disoriented”—which describes my romantic history perfectly.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
All the Way to the River
Your life will slip away if you don’t share it with anyone, she said. And I’d explained how you could hold onto a moment. But you can’t use it to hold onto people, I said, because they can always just get up and walk out of view.
- Jente Posthuma
What I'd Rather Not Think About
We chose wisdom over want. We chose healing over history. We chose separate futures over shared wreckage. And it feels like dying.
- Seethala Devi Chandu
You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
Relationships don’t fall apart in a day, they fade slowly, almost quietly. It starts when effort turns into assumption, when conversations become shorter, and care feels routine. Love alone is never enough, it needs patience, communication, and small acts of effort every single day. The truth is, distance doesn’t always begin with fights, it begins with silence, with “maybe tomorrow.” And before we even notice, the bond that once felt unbreakable starts to feel distant. Because every relationship survives on effort, not emotion.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
Nudity isn’t beauty—it’s an illusion, one that often disappears at the end of a sexual night. It cannot nourish the soul; it satisfies only the body’s temporary hunger. And this is why so many relationships today have such short lives—because they begin with the attraction of nudity, not the depth of inner beauty.
- Mohammed Zaki Ansari
"Zaki's Gift Of Love"
You don’t lose your worth because someone couldn’t meet you where you stood.
- Katerina Markadakis
Legacy of Letting Go: A Journal for Those Healing from Love That Could Not Stay
Yes, I felt like telling you the truth, but I couldn’t gather the courage. Not because I wanted to hide, but because I was scared, scared of losing you, scared of being misunderstood. I know it was my fault, and I will take that. But my intentions were never wrong. Everything I did came from a place of care, not selfishness. Sometimes we make mistakes not out of a bad heart, but out of fear. And that fear costs us the people we never wanted to lose.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
I agree with you because I don’t want to argue or fight, not because you are right. Sometimes peace feels more important than proving a point. I have learned that not every truth needs to be spoken, not every misunderstanding needs to be cleared. Some people only listen to reply, not to understand. So I stay quiet, not out of weakness, but out of wisdom. Because I have realized that keeping my peace is worth more than winning any argument.
- Garima Soni
Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.
- Aja Gabel
Lightbreakers