Quotes About Relationships

All I ever wanted was love, until you loved me.

Monogamy is defined by what it is not, just as much as by what it is," I say, "We couldn't have monogamy without infidelity the same as we couldn't have sad without happy, or down without up. By fucking around in secret, within a relationship defined as monogamous, aren't I just playing the devil in monogamy's Sunday school pageant?

I don't want to die alone, which I guess means I don't want to die.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

The more things change, the more you still don't love me.

Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.

I like falling off my skateboard the way I like loving you. Broken hearts, like broken bones, hurt well.

In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.

I hate to see you leave but I kind of hate it when you're here, too.

You and me will die the way we lived; telling each other stories to make it mean something.

Sometimes two people can love each other, even though one is a wrist and the other a razor.

I wish being in love was enough. I wish it counted for anything at all.

Sieh sie dir an", sagte Vincent. "Alle finden einfach zueinander. Sie kommen so mühelos zusammen. Warum passiert mir das nicht?

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

People are not motivated by the bottom line. It's about the human factor—and purpose is the driver. It's what stirs our souls and inspires us to do great things over a sustained period of time." Capitalism for these organizations capitalizes on human enterprise, not performance metrics. On people, not consumers. On relationships, not transactions. And on becoming the best company for the planet, not just on the planet.

Death's wisdom is finding, at the end, that you think only of those you loved, and why you didn't love them more. Love is the only true force that endures.

When you know you're worth loving, you can be a little imperfect. Hell, look at me—a lot imperfect. It makes all the difference in the world when you believe someone loves you enough that they don't overlook the spot and the messed up hair. They just add it to the things about you that make them love you all the more.

We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.

I was crying on the back-porch swing. You came out with a corsage of fresh forget-me-nots and roses, and a handkerchief. You told me any guy worth my time would always come to me with flowers and a handkerchief. One to make me smile, and the other to dry my tears, because a smart guy knows women need to cry as much as they need to laugh.

Accepting what people are, what they can't change and loving them with every part of yourself anyway. That's what love is about." He glared at Elaine. "You take that away from him, you make him believe that kind of love doesn't exist…It would be better for you to shoot him rather than destroy him inch by inch, year after year. If you do that, you're not saving his soul, you're killing it. If you'd look into his eyes for once, you'll see it. How we love is our soul.

Tyler said to Chloe: There are many things that men don't do any more that they should. Particularly for women.

He met her eyes. "Even if I'm deep in my head, I still need you, Julie. That's how I knew when I fell in love with you. For the first time in my life I need someone so much I can't turn it off and convince myself otherwise.

Even the most controlling Master knew love was the best kind of surrender. If he had any sense at all.