Quotes About Relationships

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations." —Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends.

Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.

To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.

Living together alone is hell between consenting adults.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We're a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

It's hard to understand other people, to know what's hidden in their hearts, and without the assistance of alcohol it might never be done.

La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'on aime, à feindre en toute circonstance un léger détachement.

Men live alongside one another like cattle; it is a miracle if once in a while they manage to share a bottle of booze.

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

une conversation entre hommes, cette chose curieuse qui semble toujours hésiter entre la pédérastie et le duel

Il est bien difficile de comprendre les autres, de savoir ce qui se cache au fond de leurs cÅ"urs, et sans l'assistance de l'alcool on n'y parviendrait peut-être même pas du tout

Le combat narcissique durerait aussi longtemps que la sociabilité elle-même, il en serait l'ultime vestige, mais il finirait par s'éteindre. Quant à l'amour, il ne fallait plus y compter.

L'amour chez l'homme n'est rien d'autre que la reconnaissance pour le plaisir donné.

Intimacy isn't something men talk about.

Cand iubirea a disparut, viata devine oarecum conventionala si silnica; pastrezi o forma umana, comportamentele obisnuite, un soi de structura, dar sufletul, cum se spune, e gol.

I once met a girl – a pretty, attractive girl – who told me she fantasised about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.