Relationships Quotes

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Orson Scott Card

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

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

W. H. Auden

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

C.S. Lewis

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

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J.K. Rowling

My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.

Stephen King

I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

John Green

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

Paulo Coelho

How would your life be different ifYou approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the dayYou dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.

Steve Maraboli

Like associates with like.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Thomas Carlyle

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

Eknath Easwaran

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Menander

Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money,I give you myself before preaching or law;Will you give me yourself, will you come travel with me?Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open R

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins.

Victoria Billings