Quotes About Relationships

NEWSFLASH Lisa, Bart is not a horse!" —Homer Simpson

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?" "Pretty much.

Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?' And then he had told her about a man called Roger Dunbar at Oxford University, who had discovered that human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people, as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities.

That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another's pain as if our own.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem. Maybe she was just scared of living. But Bertrand Russell had more marriages and affairs than hot dinners, so perhaps he was no one to give advice.

You could eat in the finest restaurants, you could partake in every sensual pleasure, you could sing on stage in São Paulo to twenty thousand people, you could soak up whole thunderstorms of applause, you could travel to the ends of the Earth, you could be followed by millions on the internet, you could win Olympic medals, but this was all meaningless without love.

If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.

She had shrunk for him and he still hadn't found the space he needed. No more.

This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the reality is that connections between people aren't permanent, but fleeting and random, like a solar eclipse or clouds meeting in the sky. They exist in a constantly moving universe full of constantly moving objects.

It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realize, to make someone you care about laugh

Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from.

If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it's by a single atom less. A single atom is all you need to make a very big explosion.

Life is the people who love you.

I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone in the world is a little bit to blame for everything.

Sex can damage love but love can't damage sex.

she wondered if her parents had ever been in love or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person.

Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It's the people we reach via the iPhone that mater.

Friend: Someone who will tell you the truth, often mistaken for an enemy.

A handful of people, working at a handful of technology companies, through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today . . . I don't know a more urgent problem than this . . . It's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships that we want with each other.' —Tristan Harris, former Google employee

But she'd been feeling lonely. And though she'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.

He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

The paradox of modern life is this: we have never been more connected and we have never been more alone.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. That's why everyone hates each other nowadays, he reckoned. Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.