Quotes About Relationships

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

I watched my mom suffer from a divorce where she depended on my father.

I never want to make the people dearest to me suffer: my parents, my brothers and my sister, my wife Cathryn, our children Olivia and Sofia.

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.

My family knows everything about me. There are no secrets, which can be suffocating, but I also find comfort in it. You can always reach out an arm, and an aunty will be close by to tell you that your skirt is too short.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

We just learned about this fetish where guys just give women money and know that they are spending their money. It's not like a sugar daddy thing. It's like financial domination, or something like that. These guys just want to give you money.

Real connection and intimacy is like a meal, not a sugar fix.

I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.