Relationships Quotes

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.