Relationships Quotes

Love is like slamming into a wall of concrete and asking to do it all again once the rubble is cleared.

~ Alexandra Toscano

Yes, some mistakes leave their mark, like the infidelity stains in the backseat. But in time they do fade.

~ Crystal Woods

I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you decide, in your own mind, that you’re going to have to tell someone who loves you that you don’t want to be with them anymore. Terror, and relief; relief and terror, so intermingled that they feel like the same thought.

~ Michael Marshall Smith

It seems to me that one of the great hazards is quick love, which is actually charm. We get used to smiling, hugging, bantering, practicing good eye contact. And it's easier then true, slow, awkward and painful connection with someone who sees all the worst parts of you. Your act is easy. Being with you, deeply with, is difficult.

~ Shauna Niequist

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

~ Anthony Marais

Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.

~ John Tracy Wilson

For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.But then he forgot all those promises he made. He forgot why he loved me. He simply stopped loving me.And this is how he did it:He stopped talking to me unless I spoke to him.He stopped holding my hand.He stopped kissing me good night.He stopped kissing me good morning.He stopped kissing me.He stopped smiling at me.He stopped laughing.He stopped bathing and showering with me.He stopped wanting me.He started swearing at me.He started lying to me.He started cheating on me.He hurt me.And then he told me he was in love with another woman and wanted a divorce.Oh, I forgot. He said he was sorry.I wanted to blow his fucking brains out.

~ Terry Mcmillan

Being called ‘love’ or ‘my love’ by someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I had complete faith that this was a man who would keep his promises, who would always be there when I needed him, who would always have my best interests at heart. Together we would be able to face anything in life.

~ Rosemary K. West

Anger WorksAnger can be extremely rewarding in the short term. It can distract you from pain and threatening feelings. You may use anger to provoke fear and anxiety in others. Such anger makes others feel threatened, allowing you to gain control. But regularly directing anger at someone is likely to make him or her even less supportive. Ultimately, that person will withdraw completely- leaving you feeling even more isolated.

~ Bernard Golden

True Love… it’s the most wonderful human emotion and one of the most elusive. We search for it, trying to find that one person in the whole world worthy enough to spend our lives with. When you look at the trail of broken hearts, the rivers of tears and the broken dreams, it’s quite obvious that it’s not an easy dream to achieve. Don’t we rightly call it the Quest for Love? That’s why when we think we’ve found the right person, we are giddy with happiness and relief. Finally! The answer to our prayers has come after such a long wait. We are safe. We are loved.A lot of women view marriage this way and I blame that on all the Walt Disney cartoons we watched as little girls. There’s this beautiful helpless princess locked away in a castle and here comes this handsome prince to save her from her miserable life. Classic. Then, after the grand wedding ball, the movie ends with:“And They Lived Happily Ever After.”That’s it? What happened afterwards? Nothing’s mentioned about that. We are made to think that it all ends there, that the couple’s happiness is secured and a given. They love each other, right? They went through all that trouble just to be together. So they’ll be happy. End of story.

~ Eeva Lancaster

The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

~ Henry Miller

Ladies, being able to submit to your future husband requires a deeper trust in God who created him.

~ Nicole J. Fortune

I've learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.

~ Alice Walker

God gave you the capacity to invent, work, create and to be brilliant.

~ Nicole J. Fortune

Love can never let you down because love is perfect.

~ Nicole J. Fortune

The Fear of being lonely and alone after a breakupIf you deal with that fear by finding love in another relationship before finding the love of God, you will find yourself holding to a lesser love that does not cast out fear.You will still live in fear, because that relationship becomes your security, and you will fear losing that relationship. Perfect love casts out all fear - 1 John 4:18There is only one source of perfect love.

~ Elias Tan Js

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In this moment I resolve to kiss my husband with an open mouth forever. I want to freeze him the way I see him in this instant: dark eyebrows, sexy, sleepy hair and sleepy eyes. But we can't freeze the way that we see the people we love, as much as we would wish. I know that I will kiss my husband with a closed mouth again, at some point. I know that I will even kiss him with a closed heart. I pray for our love. I pray that even if I kiss my husband with a closed heart, my heart opens again to him. When I desire my husband. I am grateful to desire my husband. What can we hope for in a marriage but to keep seeing things anew? With the people we love, it is so easy to stop seeing them at all.

~ Melissa Broder

There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.

~ Rick Cormier

That’s what marriage was at its best: You didn’t have to tell your partner to look out, that you were falling. They were just there to catch you.

~ Jamie Brenner

Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them.

~ Rick Cormier

We take the most difficult relationship of our childhood... and we MARRY it.

~ Rick Cormier

Breakup is hard enough to live with, why do we need the paperwork of divorce.

~ Nilesh Rathod

Divorce is a bitch and marriage is the mother of that bitch.

~ Nilesh Rathod

The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself

~ Nilesh Rathod

The secret tugs at my sleeve.A child looking for attention.It is not a big secret.But it is not the only one either.“Strength in numbers” they say.For they are many.Many little things that – together –weigh tonnes.And take up space.And are quite noisy.The way only a lot of whispers can make noise.And they follow me.Little secretsof omission, desire,and denial.Of indulgence, hedonism,and exploration.Of peeves, passion,and deep-seated fear.Little secretsof despairanddisrepairandprohibited thoroughfare.

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

I sit on a rock and watch children playingin the park belowThey don't see meOr know my thoughtsOr that you haven't calledBut I forgive them their indifference todayAbove me a crow cawsPerhaps he smells the crumbs on my dressOr my angerBut he flits away over the treesProbably has a homeProbably has a wifeProbably knew to callThe children leaveThe coffee in my can turns coldThe wind nips at meSome street lights flicker onBut I won't moveNot yetI will wait for the night to chase meBack where I came fromUp the empty streetTo a quiet house

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

When you love someone, you can just live without it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out.

~ Paul Murray

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world, It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don’t look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

~ Barnett R. Brickner

I looked up and she said, You have to believe I did everything a reasonable person would do. Maybe I didn't reach my hands into toilet water, but I did everything else I could.

~ Charlie Close

Best of all, she waits outside the dressing room while I'm changing. Girlfriends don't do this but wives do, and if there is any better reason to get married than to have someone to hold your hand in a clothing store, I don't know what it is.

~ Charlie Close

I find a woman with brains enormously attractive and not threatening in the least. A pretty face is nice, too, but having somebody to converse with and share thoughts for thirty or forty years is very appealing to me.

~ Beatriz Williams