Quotes About Relationships

Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, 'Oh yes,darling, I understand, let's talk about our "feelings", lah-dee-f**king-dah.' People who say they've never had a cross word are living on another f**king planet.

My wife can sniff out a lie from six thousand miles away. And I'm the world's worst liar, anyway.

As for the kids, once the damage is done with a divorce, you can't ever make it right.

I love my wife whether she's fat, thin, fucking square, round, fucking oblong shape. She's the greatest lover I've ever had. She's the greatest lover, period.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

That man is such a damn turd monkey." "Grandma!" I said. "Oh, Zoeybird, did I just call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?" "Yes, Grandma, you did." She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives.

rudeness begets conflict with others but also conflict within ourselves, and the latter can prove as hurtful as the former (p. 43).

A human moment occurs anytime two or more people are together, paying attention to one another. — Edward M. Hallowell (p. 34)

The problem is not that humans are by nature incapable of knowing how to love, but that the circumstances of their lives often prevent them from learning.

THERE IS NO JOY EXCEPT IN HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS' — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (p.16).

I am convinced that, to a significant extent, life is what our relationships make it. …To learn how to be happy we must learn how to live well with others, and civility is a key to that (p. 6).

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.