Quotes About Relationships

It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving.

I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea.

A man needs understanding because he is existentially alone. He stares into the darkness. That was the difference between men and women, Leo thought. Men need groups and gangs and sport and clubs and institutions and women because men know that there is only nothingness and self-doubt. Women were always trying to make a connection, build a relationship. As though one human being could know another.

I wondered how anyone finds closeness when violence is so near it.

Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and no means of dismissing my own.

Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man's constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people.

Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.

Rien ne rétrécit plus l'esprit, rien n'engendre plus de riens, de rapports, de paquets, de tracasseries, de mensonges, que d'être éternellement renfermés vis-à-vis les uns des autres dans une chambre, réduits pour tout ouvrage à la nécessité de babiller continuellement.

Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

Nada manifiesta tanto las verdaderas inclinaciones de un hombre como las clases de relaciones que contrae '.

My lack of success with women has always come from loving them too much

You must give your own time, attention, affection, your very self; for whatever you do, people always perceive that your money is not you.

Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice, it is more often a virtue, especially in young people. The kindness with which a man treats us attaches us to him; one does not give way to him in order to deceive him, one does so in order not to make him sad, not to return him harm for good.

LinguÈ™irea, sau mai bine zis îng?duinÈ›a, nu e totdeauna un p?cat, ea e de cele mai multe ori o virtute, îndeosebi la tineri. Bun?tatea cu care un om ne trateaz? ne leag? de el; nu-i cedezi ca s? profiÈ›i de el, ci ca s? nu-l mâhneÈ™ti, ca s? nu-i pl?teÈ™ti binele cu r?u.

Ce principe établi, il s'ensuit que la femme est faite spécialement pour plaire à l'homme. Si l'homme doit lui plaire à son tour, c'est d'une nécessité moins directe : son mérite est dans sa puissance ; il plaît par cela seul qu'il est fort. Ce n'est pas ici la loi de l'amour, j'en conviens ; mais c'est celle de la nature, antérieure à l'amour même.

Una vez libres los hijos de la obediencia que deben al padre, y el padre de los cuidados que debe a los hijos, recobran todos igualmente su independencia. Si continúan unidos luego, ya no lo es naturalmente, sino voluntariamente, y la familia misma no se mantiene sino por convención.

You turned a crazy old guy into an enemy in less than two minutes. YOU did it. You've done it over and over, I've seen you: you approach people like an enemy and bam!, they turn into one, whether they were to begin with or now -Maddy

Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.

Marriage] made the hard moments easier and the good moments better.

I'd never met a man I would rather spend time with. I loved him for all sorts of reasons: He cooked without recipes; he wrote nonsense poems for his nieces; his large, warm family had accepted me as one of their own.