Relationships Quotes

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

~ Mandy Hale

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

~ Milan Kundera

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

~ Pandora Poikilos

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

~ Doug Fetherling

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.


~ Dora J. Arod

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

~ Dean Koontz

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

~ Criss Jami

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

~ Steve Maraboli

When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.

~ Steve Maraboli

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must feel something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

~ Leo Buscaglia

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

~ Graeme Simsion

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

~ Haruki Murakami

I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?

~ C. Joybell C.

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

~ Bell Hooks

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

~ Françoise Sagan

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

~ Gustave Flaubert

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

~ Charles Bukowski

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

~ William Paul Young

Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

~ Jess C. Scott

You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.

~ Pleasefindthis

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.

~ Pleasefindthis

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

~ Charles Dickens

When you say I and my too much, you lose the capacity to understand the we and our.

~ Steve Maraboli

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

~ Shannon L. Alder

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

~ Jess C. Scott

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.

~ Gayle Roper

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.

~ Anirban Bose

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

~ Albert Camus

Lately I can't help wanting usto be like other people.For example, if I were a smoker,you'd lift a match to the cigarettejust as I put it between my lips.It's never been like thatbetween us: none of thateasy chemistry, no quick, half automaticflares. Everything between ushad to be learned.Saturday finds me broodingbehind my book, all my fantasiesof seduction run upagainst the rocks.Tell me againwhy you don't likesex in the afternoon?No, don't tell me--I'll never understand younever understand us, America's strangestloving couple: they neverdrink a bottle of wine togetherand rarely look at each other.Into each other's eyes, I mean.

~ Deborah Garrison