Quotes About Relationships

Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

A child needs your love the most when he deserves it least.

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be.

I brought children into this lousy, mixed-up world because when you love someone and they love you back, the world doesn't look that lousy or seem that mixed up.

When a man's got cream in the refrigerator at home, he won't go out looking for two-percent butterfat.

arms weren't flabby. He never used to yell at

The sadist doesn't create a masochist; he finds him already made.

The important conclusion for us is that the groups use the leader sometimes with little regard for him personally, but always with regard to fulfilling their own needs and urges.

Much of the loss of temper that we see in family life and in intimate friendships and courtships stems from simply hearing the wrong things at the wrong times.

The thing that has to be explained in human relations is precisely the fascination of the person who holds or symbolizes power. There is something about him that seems to radiate out to others and to melt them into his aura, a "fascinating effect," as Christine Olden called it, of "the narcissistic personality"3 or, as Jung preferred to call him, the "mana-personality.

Probably, if most of us had our way, we would try to maximize the predictability of everyone else, while leaving ourselves free to inject novelty into our relationships. Only this kind of power would give us complete safety and control. But it would also be dull.

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.