Quotes About Relationships

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.

Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations with all the female characters?

The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past:

these are people used to seeing one another daily year after year; everything they say is the continuation of things already said.

La conoscenza del prossimo ha questo di speciale: passa necessariamente attraverso la conoscenza di se stesso.

L'umano arriva dove arriva l'amore, non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

There can be no love if one does not remain oneself with all one's strength.

El amor se reanudaba con una furia similar a la de la pelea. Era, en realidad, la misma cosa, pero Cósimo no entendía nada. –¿Por qué me haces sufrir? –Porque te amo. Ahora era él quien se enfadaba. –¡ No, no me amas! Quien ama quiere la felicidad, no el dolor. –Quien ama quiere sólo el amor, aun a costa del dolor. –Me haces sufrir adrede, entonces. –Sí, para ver si me amas.

I thought only of the Earth. It was the Earth that caused each of us to be that someone he was rather than someone else; Up there wrested from the earth, it was as if I were no longer that I, nor she that She for me.

you come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.

Fai bene a esser geloso. Ma tu pretendi di sottomettere la gelosia alla ragione. - Certo: così la rendo più efficace. - Tu ragioni troppo. Perché mai l'amore va ragionato? - Per amarti di più. Ogni cosa, a farla ragionando, aumenta il suo potere. - Vivi sugli alberi e hai la mentalità di un notaio con la gotta. - Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice.

Cosimo: Perché mi fai soffrire? - Viola: Perché ti amo. - Cosimo: No, non mi ami! Chi ama vuole la felicità, non il dolore. - Viola: Chi ama vuole solo l'amore, anche a costo del dolore. - Cosimo: Mi fai soffrire apposta, allora. - Viola: Si, per vedere se mi ami. Italo Calvino dal libro "Il barone rampante".

They have known her since she was a girl, they know everything there is to know about her, some of them may have been involved with her, now water under the bridge, over and done with; in other words, there is a veil of other images that settles on her image and blurs it, a weight of memories that keep me from seeing her as a person seen for the first time, other people's memories suspended like the smoke under the lamps.

Our subjective, individual selves, I was thinking, find their amplification and completion only in the unity of the couple.

Every animal, every object, every relationship took on beneficial or malign powers that came to be called magical powers but should, rather, have been called narrative powers, potentialities contained in the world, in its ability to link itself to other worlds on the plane of discourse.

For the majority of mollusks, the visible organic form has little importance in the life of the members of a species, since they cannot see one another and have, at most, only a vague perception of other individuals and of their surroundings. This does not prevent brightly colored stripings and forms which seem very beautiful to our eyes (as in many gastropod shells) from existing independently of any relationship to visibility.

È una delle grandi difficoltà della vita d'indovinare ciò che una donna vuole. Ascoltarne le parole non serve, perché tutto un discorso può essere annullato da uno sguardo e neppure questo sa dirigerci quando ci si trova con lei, per suo volere, in una comoda buia stanzuccia.

Le donne oneste erano quelle che sapevano trovare l'acquirente al prezzo più alto, erano quelle che non consentivano all'amore che quando ci trovavano il loro tornaconto.

Una volta sposati non si discute più d'amore e, quando si sente il bisogno di dirne, l'animalità interviene preso a rifare il silenzio. Ora tale animalità può essere divenuta tanto umana da complicarsi e falsificarsi, ed avviene che, chinandosi su una capigliatura femminile, si faccia anche lo sforzo di evocarvi qualcosa che non c'è. Si chiudono gli occhi e la donna diventa un'altra per ridivenire lei quando si abbandona

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.