Quotes About Relationships

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

Pienso que nunca antes me habías humillado tanto con tus expresiones, ni habías demostrado más fehacientemente tu desprecio (p. 64)

I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...

Oamenii care te p?r?sesc cu adev?rat nu-È™i dau niciodat? osteneala s? te înÈ™tiinÈ›eze printr-o scrisoare de È™ase pagini.

Rosie, maybe I'm a masochist, but I think the world of you. You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen and you've got no idea. You think it's any fun for me to sit here being loathed by you? I'm in love with you.

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.

We've all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.

words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Nikada nismo tako slabo zašti?eni od patnje,kao onda kada volimo.

El término cultura designa la suma de las producciones e instituciones que distancian nuestra vida de la de nuestros antecesores animales y que sirven a dos fines: proteger al hombre contra la Naturaleza y regular las relaciones de los hombres entre sí

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.