Quotes About Relationships

Dad just smiled wryly. "You'll learn, Frank, that when you're up there're hundreds of people who'll claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one of them will buy you a cup of coffee. If I had it to do over again, I'd select my friends more carefully. I do have a couple of good friends. They're not wealthy, but one of them got me my job in the post office.

When another woman steals your man the best revenge is to let her keep him

for there is no cure for love save love itself. That is the verdict of all the wise doctors who have ever practiced since the earliest times.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.

Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.

And actually it is not you at all I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me

Next time I come here, he said to himself, I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.

In this love you are like a knife with which I explore myself.

What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life. In its heights and in its depths. Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist, dass Du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle. An Milena Jesenska (14. September 1920)

Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.

All right then, I'll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there's a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart.

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love" - Letters to Milena

Cara signora Milena, la giornata è molto breve, con Lei e soltanto con qualche altra inezia è bell'e passata e terminata. E' molto se rimane un po' di tempo per scrivere alla vera Milena perché quella ancor più vera era qui tutto il giorno nella camera, sul balcone, nelle nuvole.

Amore è il fatto che tu sei per me il coltello col quale frugo dentro me stesso.

Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te.

All the love in the world in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

All the love in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

Die Liebe ist so unproblematisch wie ein Fahrzeug - problematisch sind nur die Lenker, die Fahrgäste und die Straße.

You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.

O God," he thought, "what a demanding job I've chosen! Day in, day out on the road. The stresses of trade are much greater than the work going on at head office, and, in addition to that, I have to deal with the problems of traveling, the worries about train connections, irregular bad food, temporary and constantly changing human relationships which never come from the heart. To hell with it all!