Quotes About Relationships

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

And where love ends, hate begins

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing…Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

I don't give a damn unless I'm fond of a person;but I'd sacrifice my life for those I am fond of; the rest I'd throttle if they stood in my way...And you may not believe me but if I still set a value on life it is only because I still hope one day to meet such a heavenly creature who will regenarate me, purify me and elevate me. But you don't understand that.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.