Quotes About Relationships

I have loved him too much not to hate

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure.

It occurred to him that loving people made you both strong and weak at the same time.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

I fell in love with Caligula and now I'm married to Calvin.

This tape is supposed to be about love, and I guess the distortions of love. The Love Tape. Do you have any questions you want to ask me?

But as Ram Dass once said, you know, if you think you're enlightened, go spend a weekend with your parents.

Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Truman Capote on Warhol

Constance, with her plainness, deafness, and superior age (she was three years older than Henry), probably did not strike Alice as a serious rival for her brother's love.

The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you'd signed up for a credit card without knowing it.

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

Ryan and his father obediently headed off. At the bathroom door his father said, "Well, if finicky eaters make poor lovers, I don't know what you got here.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

I keep thinking what a lot I missed out on through being so introverted. I am not referring to sex but all the other things. Being sociable, I suppose.)

I've noticed that in films about holocausts and disasters and such it's always a young girl and an old man, right at the end, who have to get together for the sake of the future. I don't think I could do that, not with an old man, though maybe I could if it was all there was.

If he had a particle of sense he would send her packing right here and now. His mother always had said that girls would be the death of him.

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Community as caring . . . So many people enter groups in order to develop a certain form of spirituality or to acquire knowledge about the things of God and of humanity. But that is not community; it is a school. It becomes community only when people start truly caring for each other and for each other's growth.

Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another.

Community as forgiveness . . . Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to discover a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to learn to forgive and be forgiven seven times seventy-seven times, we will soon be disappointed.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.