Relationships Quotes

I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.

~ Kate Hattemer

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

~ Coco J. Ginger

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

~ Sarah Dessen

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands nor baffle him with classically female sudden-onset hysterical behavior.

~ Valerie Frankel

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

~ Julia Spencer-Fleming

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

~ Milan Kundera

Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.

~ Gore Vidal

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

~ Arthur C. Clarke

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

~ Arnold Haultain

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

~ Ian Fleming

The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they’re a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman’s good nature.

~ John Updike

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

~ Daniel Taylor

As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes. But I didn’t believe it to be anything so different from other tiffs we’d had. It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven could unravel and separate over a thing like that.But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then—who knows?—maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....

~ Alice Mattison

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses.Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

~ John Bowlby

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

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

~ Timothy J. Keller

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.

~ Mark Epstein

Do you love me Hero? His pale green eyes were full of torment. Do you love me like I love you?

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought Am I led; am I leading? Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

~ E.m. Forster

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

~ S.j. Watson

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

~ Derrick A. Bell

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.

~ Koren Zailckas

I have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstances, I'll name the motive. Even saints have motives -- to feel like saints, probably. ... But still, the point of any relationship is obtaining something from another person.

~ Tom Rachman

Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, I told him. You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you.

~ Cornelia Maude Spelman

The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk.

~ Richard Kadrey

Being faithful and monogamous is not natural for human beings. It takes work. Deep down we all know that. We have all been tempted to stray at some point or another. Even when it was only a fleeting thought and we didn't act on it. Every time we acknowledge that someone of the opposite sex is attractive or sexy we are doing nothing other than pointing out that they would be a suitable mate. Not acting on that natural impulse to want to mate with a viable mating partner requires a conscious decision. It's a constant struggle between what your body wants, and what the civilized part of your brain says you should do, in order to avoid the negative consequences of cheating on your spouse and ruining your long-term relationship. That's why affairs, and extra-marital sex, are often referred to as a moment of weakness.

~ Oliver Markus

Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.

~ Dalma Heyn

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

~ Sándor Márai

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love

~ Jessica Anya Blau

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

~ E.m. Forster

As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.

~ Kieran Scott

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You want him praising the Lord in the morning, you put a smile on his face tonight.

~ Mark Gungor

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

~ Jude Morgan

(Peter) If you don't share the lows, it seems you might stop sharing the highs as well.

~ Nancy Woodruff