Relationships Quotes

At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.

~ Douglas Coupland

You can always evaluate a man's character by the way he speaks about his ex girlfriends and other women. When entering a new relationship or getting close with a new guy, make sure you take notice of the language he uses when referring to other girls

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

~ Neil Strauss

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

~ Criss Jami

If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.

~ Kristen Crockett

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.

~ David Levithan

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

~ Carl Sagan

These guys may not talk too much about relationships, but they sure do blush at telling moments, don’t they? Maybe that’s the key to understanding the opposite sex; I could invent a science, call it blushology.

~ Jody Gehrman

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.

~ J.g. Ballard

It all comes down to that one person you always think about before you fall asleep at night. And text Good Morning as soon as you wake up.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

~ Ann Aguirre

Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.

~ Tamela Rich

The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.

~ Robertson Davies

Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.

~ Roberto Hogue

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?

~ Bret Easton Ellis

Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.

~ Barbara Bartlein

I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.

~ Christopher Hawke

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your relationships will take you beyond the boundaries of your normal strength. Encouragement gives struggling people eyes to see the unseen Christ.

~ Timothy S. Lane

You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you

~ Darien Gee

To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.

~ Christos Yannaras

I had a dream about you. You were crying, and I couldn’t tell if it was because you were sad or because you’d been laughing too hard. So I decided to find out by telling you that I’d just heard from the cops, and your mother had been murdered. Before I got to the punch line you started sobbing in a different manner, so I realized you’d been laughing earlier. By that time the mood had changed, and I decided it best not to deliver the punch line after all. So I sat down next to you and put my arm around you and tried to console you for your perceived loss. 


~ Dora J. Arod

I help others because I can, not because I expect something in return.

~ Amy Manemann

When clouds of pain loom in the skyWhen a shadow of sadness flickers byWhen a tear finds its way to the eyeWhen fear keeps the loneliness aliveI try and console my heartWhy is it that you cry? I askThis is only what life impartsThese deep silences withinHave been handed out to all by timeEveryone’s story has a little sorrowEveryone’s share has a little sunshineNo need for water in your eyesEvery moment can be a new lifeWhy do you let them pass you by?Oh heart, why is it that you cry?

~ Javed Akhtar

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

~ Orhan Pamuk

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

~ Sherryl Woods

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

~ Stephen King

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

~ Douglas Adams

Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared...

~ Matt Dunn

When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

~ Thomas Hardy

We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought.

~ Pandora Poikilos

I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

~ Grace Kelly

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

~ Daniel Tammet

Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.

~ Amit Ray

How much do you love me?She drew in a breath and let it out. Too much.Too much is just enough for this man.And do you love me? she whispered.I have always loved you. Always. You know that.

~ Delilah Marvelle

An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.

~ Jeffrey Stepakoff

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

~ Suzanne Finnamore