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Quotes About Relationships

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.
~ John Steinbeck
No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
~ John Steinbeck
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
~ John Steinbeck
Only once or twice in her life had she ever understood all of him, but the part of him which she knew, she knew intricately and well. No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
~ John Steinbeck
Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.
~ John Steinbeck
He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts.
~ John Steinbeck
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
~ John Steinbeck
Relationship Time to Aloneness. And I remember about that. Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.
~ John Steinbeck
I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
~ John Steinbeck
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his gellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not anthoer to help him up…Again, if two lie together then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him, and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
~ John Steinbeck
I guess she's just nuts,' he said. 'And if she's nuts, a guy's got to do nuts things. You don't think you could say the hell with her?
~ John Steinbeck
Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.
~ John Steinbeck
in 50 years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?
~ John Steinbeck
Hurry home, darling, she said. Hurry home. And how's that for a man to have! When I hung up, I stood by the phone all weak and leaky and happy if there is such a condition. I tried to think how it had been before Mary, and I couldn't remember, or how it would be without her, and I could not imagine it except that it would be a condition bordered in black.
~ John Steinbeck
Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.
~ John Steinbeck
There's no thing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of a postage stamp.
~ John Steinbeck
Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.
~ John Steinbeck
I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.
~ John Steinbeck
The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.
~ John Steinbeck
I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.
~ John Steinbeck
Kitaplar bir halta yaramaz. İnsan?n birine ihtiyac? vard?r, birine yak?n olmak ister. İnler gibi devam etti. Kimsesi yoksa delirir insan. Kim olduÄŸu hiç önemli deÄŸildir, yeter ki yan?nda biri olsun. inan?n bana, insan fazla yaln?z kald? m?, hastalan?r.
~ John Steinbeck
And all their love was thinned with money.
~ John Steinbeck
She felt hurt that he had agreed so easily. And she laughed sourly at herself that she could ask a thing and be hurt when she got it.
~ John Steinbeck
A man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves.
~ John Steinbeck