Quotes About Relationships

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

Clark, she said softly, I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.