Relationships Quotes

What's the difference? You ask meThe difference is, a smile touches my lipsWhen I remember both the memory of you entering my lifeAnd the memory of you leaving my life

~ Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

~ J.k. Rowling

I didn't dream about you last night. I woke up in fear.

~ Michael Summers

Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.

~ Wally Lamb

Never judge someone by their relatives.

~ Charles Martin

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

~ Ravi Zacharias

We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

~ Martina Boone

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

~ Steve Maraboli

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning, or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.

~ Stephan Labossiere

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.

~ Meenakshi Gigi Durham

The best defense is a confusing offense.

~ Kimberly Pauley

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

~ Ai Yazawa

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

~ Budd Schulberg

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.

~ Margaret Atwood

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

~ S.j. Watson

God is even in a single parent household.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.

~ Marian Keyes

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,By self-example mayst thou be denied.

~ William Shakespeare

I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.

~ Michael Summers

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

~ Daniel Handler

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel,go to the theater, go to museums.What he wantedwas to lie on the couchwith the Timesover his face,so that death, when it came,wouldn't seem a significant change.

~ Louise Glück

Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.

~ Travis Luedke

Happy wife, happy life.

~ Paul Orfalea

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.

~ Courtney Cole

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

~ Emily Giffin

I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her

~ Eric Ludy

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

~ Bell Hooks

Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. Don't you see it's a trap? If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

~ Graham Greene

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

~ Lindsey Kelk

You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

~ Gustave Flaubert

There is nothing right or wrong in love. Where there is love, then there is nothing but only love.

~ Sara Naveed

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

~ Erma Bombeck