Quotes About Relationships

many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

They fear exposure, fear being seen as weak. That's why other men would rather work late than come home and talk to their wives or their children. They know what to do at work; they don't know what to do in their most important relationships.

When it comes to girls, the greatest gift you can give to the young man is to watch you love your wife.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's how men cry.

When you love me, it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.

The thing I felt most clearly, when the first corner was turned, was that I had escaped. Obscurer, but no less strong, was the feeling that she loved me more than I loved her, and that consequently I had in some indefinable way won.

Love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It

Nice girl, dear boy. Oh . . . I shrugged. You know. Most attractive. Cheaper than central heating. I'm sure.

Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.

El sexo nada importa. El amor, sí

Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation, one perhaps described by the mind to itself in semi-literary terms, one it is sufficient merely to classify under some general heading (man with alcoholic problems, woman with unfortunate past, and so on) becomes subjective; becomes unique; becomes, by empathy, instantaneously shared rather than observed.

I remember later he said (Professor Higgins again), you don't really stand a dog's chance anyhow. You're too pretty. The art of love's your line: not the love of art.

dragostea rezult? mai ales din aptitudinea de a iubi, existent? în noi înÈ™ine, È™i nu neap?rat din faptul c? partenerul are reale calit??i pentru a fi iubit.

Cómo es posible que me ame como dice? ¿Cómo puede amarse a una persona a quien no se conoce?

Sin embargo, resultaba hasta cómico que, en el momento en que yo creía estar realmente harto de ella, volviesen a ocupar mi mente los viejos sentimientos.

He said, in some ways you're older than I am. You've never been deeply in love. Perhaps you never will be. He said, love goes on happening to you. To men. You become twenty again, you suffer as twenty suffers. All the dotty irrationalities of twenty. I may seem very reasonable at the moment, but I don't feel it. When you telephoned I nearly peed in my pants with excitement. I'm an old man in love. Stock comedy figure. Very stale. Not even funny.

For you I'll always be Alison who slept around. That Australian girl who had an abortion. The human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another weekend of cheap knock.