Quotes About Relationships

I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift about people until they love my remoteness. I'm not just talking about romances but about friendships too. Whoa, Mia, you're too intense. I get a lot of that. So I know that I won't be loved the way I need to be.

We risk becoming so commonplace to the men we've thrown our lots in with who can't see us anymore, and who pat the sofa when they mean to pat our knee.

The girl tried, several times, to give her love away, but her love would not stay with the person she gave it to and snuck back to her heart without a sound.

It is important to stress the ways that people are different from each other, because so much of the suffering that we experience in our relationships with other people is caused by the fact that we are blind to their point of view.

affection by trying to make things happen for the others. This puts a Giver in the uncomfortable position of having to receive. It may feel like the Eight is dominating even

Life is also meaningful without being married', she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, 'one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make

I cannot bear to think what will become of me without you – you who are my one and all, who make up all my life',

We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth — and endures all the rest.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.