Quotes About Relationships

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare, señor. That's rare and valuable." — Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories 

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.

He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarreling, killed what they had together. He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

What happens to people that love each other? - I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

Good. I go. And if thou dost not love me, I love thee enough for both.

It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent.

No. Have it here where it is quiet. You and your quiet, said Brett. What is it men feel about quiet? We like it, said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow.

During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of the avalanches was like a happy and innocent winter in childhood compared to the next winter, a nightmare winter disguised as the greatest fun of all, and the murderous summer that was to follow. It was that year that the rich showed up.

Spanish girls make wonderful wives. I've never had one so I know.

How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her

I dried my hands and took out my pocket-book from the inside of my tunic hanging on the wall. Rinaldi took the note, folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. He smiled, I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth. You are my great and good friend and financial protector. Go to hell, I said.

Nessun uomo è un'isola, completo in se stesso; ogni uomo è un pezzo del continente, una parte del tutto. Se anche solo una nuvola venisse lavata via dal mare, l'Europa ne sarebbe diminuita, come se le mancasse un promontorio, come se venisse a mancare una dimora di amici tuoi, o la tua stessa casa. La morte di qualsiasi uomo mi sminuisce, perché io sono parte dell'umanità. E dunque non chiedere mai per chi suona la campana: suona per te.

If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?

all cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing.

We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. 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.