Quotes About Relationships

You know why you did it. You were mad at him, and you were mad at him because your father hurt your feelings. That's not difficult. You were just mean.

WHEN TWO MEN LIVE TOGETHER they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other.

Good," he said. "A group. Mary and you and the two kids. Subject: men—their weakness and stupidity and how to use them.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he died unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Same thing, I guess," said Mack. "You just can't trust a married guy. No matter how much he hates his old lady why he'll go back to her. Get to thinkin' and broodin' and back he'll go. You can't trust him no more. Take Gay," said Mack. "His old lady hits him. But I bet you when Gay's away from her three days, he gets it figured out that it's his fault and he goes back to make it up to her.

Cuando un hombre dice que no quiere hablar de algo, suele significar generalmente que no puede pensar en nada más.

Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having.

Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.

Ama baz? insanlar için için bütün dünyayla dosttur, baz?lar? da kendilerinden nefret eder, nefretleri etrafa k?zarm?? ekmeÄŸin üstündeki tereya?? gibi yay?l?r.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

There was no subject she could not discuss with Lee. And the few things she could talk about to her father and mother were thin and pale and tired and mostly not even true. There Lee was different also, Abra wanted to tell Lee only true things even when she wasn't quite sure what was true.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

You know, Mr. Trask, once I had a wife. I made her up just as you did, only mine had no life outside my mind. She was good company in my little room. I would talk and she would listen, and then she would talk, would tell me all the happenings of a woman's afternoon. She was very pretty and she made coquettish little jokes. But now I don't know whether I would listen to her. And I wouldn't want to make her sad or lonely. So there's my first plan gone.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

A woman who knows all about men usually knows one part very well and can't conceive the other parts, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

We are most alive when we're in love.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast.

Nobody belongs to us, except in memory." (Grandparenting [1994])

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.