Quotes About Relationships

A name isn't a person," Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you." He put his hands on their shoulders. "It's you that matter, not your names. It's the two of you I'll never forget.

And your parents, believe me—I don't care what kind of relationship you've got with them—they'll take you up on that offer. You share that sandwich with them—are you hearing me?—you share that glory sandwich with them and they'll love you forever.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

Two people can be perfect for each other but if the timing's wrong it's never going to work out. Bad timing is the reason that most normal people end up single. Weirdos and creeps are single cause they are weird and creepy but people like us are single because of bad timing.

Kto mi?o?ci nie zna, ten ?yje szcz??liwy, I noc ma spokojn?, i dzie? niet?skliwy.

At its best monogamy may be the wish to find someone to die with; at its worst it is a cure for the terrors of aliveness. They are easily confused.

It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.

All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn't know you had (of one's formative frustrations, and of one's attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction.

psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What

We make ourselves out of the demands others make of us, and out of whatever else we can use.

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but if one can tolerate some of one's badness -- meaning recognize it as yours -- then one can take some fear out of the world.

To your friends, you're like a trash bag they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

and I said it is the nature of love to be infinite and in such an ocean any fear and jealousy is washed away

what DNA analysis revealed more categorically than anything else was that we had sex with them, repeatedly, probably as soon as these two peoples met, and every time afterward.

statistician David Spiegelhalter has puzzled on the numbers that describe our sexual lives, and estimates that something like 900,000,000 acts of heterosexual intercourse take place per year in Britain alone, or roughly 100,000 per hour. If we extrapolate that to the seven billion humans alive, it works out at around 166,667 every minute.

Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

I understand the fear surrounding this topic, but the fear is misplaced. We shouldn't be afraid of speaking about this, we should be more afraid of what not speaking about this can lead to. It can ruin relationships, destroy families, and in the most dire circumstances it can end lives.