Quotes About Relationships

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

A word of advice: if the sex is a pain in the ass, you're doing it wrong.

I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he dismissed my cursing as an uncreative vocabulary. I think being able to use one little four letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.

He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.

Did you know that in survey after survey conducted by women's magazines, those three words were the ones that men most wanted to hear in bed? Please. Don't. Stop.

To love is to struggle, beyond solitude, with everything in the world that can animate existence. This world where I see for myself the fount of happiness my being with someone else brings. "I love you" becomes: in this world where there is the fount you are for my life. In the water from this fount, I see our bliss, yours first.

Le bonheur amoureux est la preuve que le temps peut accueillir l'éternité.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.

Sometimes, being willing to see the other person means you have to be willing to let them see you.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

I haven't seen anybody to-day," said Pooh, "not so as to say 'Hallo, Small!' to. Did you want him for anything?" "I don't want him," said Rabbit. "But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

Je?li do?yjesz stu lat, to ja chce ?y? sto lat minus jeden dzie?, ?ebym nigdy nie musia? ?y? bez ciebie.

What's it like? Being married? Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

People who pressure you usually deserve a "no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a "yes".

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

Contentment is created when your behaviour is consistent with your values. When you act in ways that are consistent with the core of who you are, even when your actions aren't approved by others, you increase your overall contentment. Happiness, success, money, relationships, and even the approval of others will come and go in your life, but what is ultimately satisfying is feeling content.

After a while, we've all sort of given up on finding Mr. Right. It's more about are you Mr. In-My-Bed-Right-Now and, whatever you do, please don't stay for breakfast.