Relationships Quotes

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

~ Marian Keyes

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.

~ Jenny Han

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

~ Mandy Hale

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

~ Helen Fielding

He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.

~ Sarah Dessen

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

~ Scott Dikkers

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

~ Christina Westover

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

~ Brian Andreas

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

~ Joshua Harris

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

~ Mandy Hale

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

~ Brian Andreas

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

~ Jess C. Scott

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

~ Jess C. Scott

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

~ Dorothy Parker

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

~ Suzanne Collins

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

~ Lev Grossman

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

~ Andrea Gibson

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience, it is all about relationships of love and respect.

~ William Paul Young

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

~ Tiffany Madison

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

~ Aberjhani

Love.Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio.The real kind.The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres.The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish.The kind that can forgives. The kind that believes in healing. The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed.The real kind of love.It's rare and we have it..

~ Chelsea Fine

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

~ W.h. Auden

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

~ Julie De Lespinasse

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

~ Greg Behrendt

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

~ Margaret Atwood

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

~ Jandy Nelson

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

~ Steve Maraboli

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

~ Gillian Flynn