Quotes About Relationships

There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long. These were islets at which they anchored for a while and then again set out upon that ocean of veiled hostility which showed itself in their aloofness from one another. This aloofness might have grieved Ivan Ilych had he considered that it ought not to exist, but he now regarded the position as normal, and even made it the goal at which he aimed in family life. His

Mas, para uma pessoa insatisfeita, é difícil não por a culpa nos outros, sobretudo em quem estiver mais perto de tudo aquilo que causa a sua insatisfação.

So much the worse for those who follow the fashion. The only happy marriages I know are marriages of convenience." "Yes, but then how often the happiness of the convenient marriages flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they have refused to recognize," said Vronsky.

He remembered about [name], about his death, and involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both of them, and because both had lived and both had died.

I don't think anything," she said, "but 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….

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." ? Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

There are no illegitimate children — only illegitimate parents.

Todas las familias felices se parecen, pero cada familia infeliz lo es a su manera

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies

So I must say it quickly; Whoever is in your life, those that harm you, those that help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know -- let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook. You are listening to radio resistance.

There is no decent place to stand In a massacre But if a woman takes your hand Then go and stand with her