Quotes About Relationships

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole

What people really want is the ability to connect to each other, not to companies.

Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.

What does it take for you and others to relax? It may be talking over a drink, or meeting at a vacation lodge in some picturesque spot, or dressing less formally during the meeting and calling one another by your first names.

Kant enjoyed the company of women (provided that they did not pretend to understand the Critique of Pure Reason) and

People discovered, in their personal lives, that civil society is not goal-directed. It comes into being, in whatever circumstances, as an end in itself, a form of life that is appreciated for what it is, not for what it does.

The condition of society is essentially one of domination, in which people are bound to each other by their attachments, and distinguished by rivalries and competition.

If we base our love for our dog on the premise that he, like us, is a person, then we damage both him and ourselves. We damage him by making demands that no animal can fully understand – holding him to account in ways that make no sense to him. We will feel bound to keep him alive, as we keep each other alive, for the sake of a relation that, being personal, is also eternal.

Dogs do not judge, and their love is unconditional only because it has no conception of conditions.

Kant enjoyed the company of women (provided that they did not pretend to understand the Critique of Pure Reason)

I have always found that hell is other people.

You fertility deities are worse than Marxists, he said. You think that's all that goes on between people. We were just friends for a time, but she is too hard on her friends and so loses them.

What is the true father of a man? The circumstances which brought together the two bodies which begat him? Was it the fact that, for some reason, at one moment in time, these two pleased one another beyond any possible alternatives? If so, why? Was it the simple hunger of the flesh, or was it curiosity, or the will? Or was it something else? Pity? Loneliness? The desire to dominate? What feeling, or what thought was father to the body in which I first came into consciousness?

Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.

Don't know why I should have to lie beside anyone I wouldn't want next to me now, and there aren't many." "You're getting morbid, Corwin. Or drunk. Or both. Bitter, too. You don't need that.

My children, I cannot say that I am entirely pleased with you, but I suppose this works both ways. Let it be. I leave you with my blessing, which is more than a formality.

This girl either brings out the worst in me or shuts me down completely. Not true. I did it myself. Still....

Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the end all human beings became candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception...and if we could recognize this from the beginning, what a saving in pain and grief and misery.

Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.

But that was always the case – people hardly ever saw their children as they really were.

Sometimes, I love to fight with you… Because, we end up loving each other more.

Holding on to a relationship is like holding sand in your hand! The more tightly you try to grip it, the more quickly it vanishes and more freely you hold it, the longer it stays! So, Relationship = How you hold it?

To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?

I can't get to know you means I shall never know what you really think of me. I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.