Quotes About Relationships

In a soap bubble as in an organism, what happens at each point is determined by what happens at all the others.

In all identification, elements of sadomasochism are present.

Courage consists in being reliant on oneself and others to the extent that, irrespective of differences in physical and social circumstance, all manifest in their behaviour and their relationships that very same spark which makes us recognise them, which makes us crave their assent or their criticism, the spark which means we share a common fate.

Love entails a beyond oneself, the very beyond of the false desire of possession...At the mystery: how one can be non-self with all of one's strength.

Love is a hollow in us, not the presence of the other.

Self and other are not two distinct substances...We are both, other and self, two variables of the same system.

Love is not created by circumstances, or by decision; it consists in the way questions and answers are linked together--by means of an attraction, something more slips in, we discover not exactly what we were seekimg, but something else that is interesting.

Love is not created by circumstances, or by decision; it consists in the way questions and answers are linked together--by means of an attraction, something more slips in, we discover not exactly what we were seeking, but something else that is interesting

Rather than imprisoning it, language is like a magic machine for transporting the 'I' into the other person's perspective.

Objects form a system in which one object cannot appear without concealing others.

Pénombre propice aux rencontres, à la confidence, aux échanges confiants. Calet n'a pas eu tort de vouloir s'y tenir et d'attendre qu'on vienne l'y retrouver. Brisée la glace du premier contact –un peu rude dans "La Belle Lurette"– des liens se tissent, intimes et solides, d'auteur à lecteur, d'homme à homme, de cœur à cœur. Ces attachements-là résistent au temps. (p. 117)

Woman, in the decadent world around us, captures a man by loving him, and, having got him, sometimes comes to admire him, which is all to the good; and, if Fate is not unkind, may descend no lower than liking and enduring.

Since time immemorial any woman with half a brain has known that in the pursuit of romance she must hide it

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

And – yes – it is a truth universally acknowledged that if an unexceptional man declares himself to a woman of his fancy, she will immediately start to look on him in a more favourable light and find his unexceptional qualities less of a handicap.

Men were like cars – they were absolutely lovely until they went wrong.

It's about this girl who was married three times and was still a virgin. Know how she managed that? First she married a midget, see, and he was too small. Next she married a preacher, and he was too religious. Then she married a small-town cop, and he couldn't find it.

The longer we're alive, the more friends —- and adversaries —- we create, and collect. - Jim Brass

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day.

Don't you aim to work with iron. Aim to work with men. They're what need the bendin'. They're what it pays to shape. Heat 'em and temper 'em. Hammer 'em and form 'em. If you break one of 'em, here and there, it don't make no difference. Throw the pieces outside the shop. Leave

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.