Quotes About Relationships

Love is this and love is that; man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love.

Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble. Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel

How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.

Mainstream pop favored romantic dreams, but blues dealt with the sorrows and joys of real relationships: cheating, abandonment, and abuse were balanced by exuberant physical pleasure.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family is both functional and dysfunctional.

The Republic of Love by Carol Shields

The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

The dream of nature is a complex web of mutuality in which each part supports the other.

Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.

we didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.

It's weirdly reassuring: when adoration is selfish, it's not going anywhere.

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.

To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and 'be safe'?" That's the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won't fix what's really going on in our souls.

But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.

If we love someone more than we love God, it is worse than inordinate - it is idolatry. When God is first in our hearts, all other loves are in order and find their rightful place.

If he had loved her he would have pursued her.

A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.

Men like mystery. They don't want to be told everything woman are thinking.