Quotes About Relationships

Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

Du bist nicht ein Ziel für mich, Du bist tausend Ziele... und ich... führe Dir alles zu bei meinem Dir-entgegengehn.

This work was throwing me into the intimate functioning of people's lives.

Having hearing children meant they had to come into contact with hearing people even more frequently than they would have otherwise—hearing teachers and scout leaders wouldn't have been such a part of their lives.

We were speaking in feelings. Words were not enough.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Never tell your problems to anyone . . . 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

El humor, los sentimientos, las ideas y las creencias cambian. Las relaciones, las carreras, las reglas e incluso las personas cambian. Los ciclos de nacimiento, vida y muerte en el ámbito humano y en el resto de la naturaleza están regidos por el cambio. Las estaciones, el clima y la evolución de nuestro planeta son siempre fruto del cambio.

The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference.

Anyone who ever had a heart, He wouldn?t turn around and break it. Anyone who ever played a part, he wouldn?t turn around and fake it. Sweet Jane

Stephanie says that she wants to know Why she's given half her life, to people she hates now

Just because you remember somebody real good doesn't mean they remember you back.

Sadly, no one in our family ever said, "I love you." Do you realize that? The truth is, I think we were all frightened of saying it, since the obvious reply would've been. "Well, if this is love, what is hate like?

Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: "We made our own happiness but I don't think we were a happy family.

Be careful whom you fall in love with, because your better judgment can be overwhelmed by your emotions. You know when a situation isn't God's best, so don't just drift along and tell yourself, "I can always fix the problems later." Before you know it, emotion kicks in and there goes your judgment. All of a sudden, you are in a serious relationship with someone whom—if you thought about it honestly—you know you shouldn't be with.

Una ira con razón, pero expresada de forma indebida. Realmente tienes algo por lo cual estar enojado, pero la estás expresando en toda clase de maneras indebidas. Tu ira destruye puentes. Le hace daño a la gente que te rodea, y te daña a ti también.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

nothing can be said about physical love if one doesn't start from the fact that men and women have equal rights to it.