Quotes About Relationships

Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.

Whenever our ideals are so stagnant that they exclude relationships that might contest our accustomed understanding of the world as well as what we, as individuals, are all about, we ourselves begin to stagnate. We slow down our evolution because we reject the very lovers who have the most to offer to us for the simple reason that they approach life from a stance that has nothing to do with our ideals.

One way to understand the matter is to recognize that when we mourn, we not only grieve the vanishing of treasured objects, but also those versions of ourselves that thrived within a particular (now lost) relational dynamic. In this manner, loss compels us to discard outmoded facets of the self. While this may give rise to bouts of regret and nostalgia, in the final analysis it serves to replenish the self in that it engenders new inner intensities and unforeseen psychic possibilities.

You should never stay in a relationship for good closet space.

Love is so much better when you are not married.

I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.

Making someone fall out of love, particularly when it is the kind of love that is meant to be, is much harder than murder.

Sa nu pierzi vremea cat esti in viata, sa-i saruti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i saruti si sa-i iubesti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i iubesti.

Is this what love is? That you can see each other, even in the dark?

Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.

Love is not this simple thing. Love isn't this obvious thing. It's not about that first moment of knowing. It's about what you keep doing after you break each other's hearts. It's about choosing each other on terrible days as well as on beautiful ones. It's about picking each other up off the floor and then laughing about it later. You can go pretty far into disaster as long as you're willing to look at each other again. You can fix a lot of failures. You can fail as long as you keep trying.

Es ist immer einfacher, über die Dinge zu reden, die uns nicht wirklich berühren.

Above a patron—though I condescend   Sometimes to call a minister my friend.

Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?

No hay que limitarse a dar; también es preciso exigir y aprender a hacerlo. Quiero decir que cuando el uno permite al otro satisfacer determinadas exigencias, se ennoblecen los dos. De lo contrario, sólo se consigue mantener tiranos y mártires.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

Feminists are those who dare to break the conspiracy of silence about the oppressive, unequal man-woman relationship and who want to change it.

Of all things love is the most potent.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

Danny smiles. Really smiles--like it means a lot that I'm not mad at him anymore. And then I figure out something weird: that you can be important to someone who doesn't mean much to you. But that once you find that out--that you mean something to them--it's hard not to feel that they mean something to you.

When she was old and forgetful, who would search for her if she wandered off? Who would find her and tuck her into the front seat of their car and drive her home? Where would home be, and with whom? The future was a great unknown for everyone, but maybe even a little more so when you had no significant other, no children, no living relatives.

Friends are where you find them, and sometimes you find them when you least suspect, in the oddest places at the strangest times.

love that had yet to be tested but was nonetheless true.