Quotes About Relationships

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

Love is not something you did it is something you do

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Simply put, Love is like a hand-grenade. If you don't throw it away from you as fast as you pull the pin, there is a 99.9% certainty that you are going to get hurt.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

But I did love you then, only I didn't realize it because it was so strong, and I still do love you, even though I know I've probably blown my chance.

It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.