Quotes About Relationships

Everybody's related, Lucy told us. The trouble with this world is that you wouldn't know it from the way we behave.

If you had more friends, maybe you wouldn't spend so much time with your demons.

Maribelle Wegman is known as the widow Wegman. Married four times. Three dead husbands. Not her fault, but having managed the hat trick already, she has been given the trophy to keep.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

We deal with love by dealing with the ones we love, with sickness by dealing with the sick, and with death by dealing with the dead. And

Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals—convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.

We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

It is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and the friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

Seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines, are worse than none; and, however it may carry with the appearance of heightened enjoyment, it defeats all the felicity of affection, by leaving it no point to fix upon; divided love is never happy.

Nations, like individuals, who have long been enemies, without knowing each other, or knowing why, become better friends when they discover the errors and impositions under which they had acted.