Quotes About Relationships

Tell him... You think it's kinder not to, but it isn't.

It's the space between them where everything important is, where it appears nothing resides. It defines the people, the music.

It was a humbling thought, to realize the weight of the world could not break him, but the loss of her could have.

I know who I am, my lady, and what matters and what doesn't. I want to be with you. That's one of the real things that matter. That's worth everything else.

When you do, you realize there are six billion people wandering around, six billion chances to form connections, friendships, shared experiences." He shrugged. "If you shut yourself away from everyone and say 'I'm lonely', it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, when the rest of the world is waiting outside that door.

She didn't belong to anyone, though her lovers, temporary though they were, belonged to her for all time.

Hay que cuidarse de confundir causa y efecto, pero en especial de hacer depender el barómetro de los acontecimientos atmosféricos, pero a la causa a la que debemos estar especialmente atentos es a los correlatos, a las relaciones que surgen como resultados de actividades que tienen efectos colaterales y conjuntos.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Loneliness isn't the physical absence of other people, he said—it's the sense that you're not sharing anything that matters with anyone else. If you have lots of people around you—perhaps even a husband or wife, or a family, or a busy workplace—but you don't share anything that matters with them, then you'll still be lonely.

To end loneliness, you need other people—plus something else. You also need, he explained to me, to feel you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. You have to be in it together—and "it" can be anything that you both think has meaning and value.

How do we start to rebuild a society where we don't feel so alone and afraid, and where we can form healthier bonds? How do we build a society where we look for happiness in one another rather than in consumption?

When they added up the figures, John and other scientists found that being disconnected from the people around you had the same effect on your health as being obese—which was, until then, considered the biggest health crisis the developed world faced.

Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.

We are living, she has come to believe, in a culture where people are not "getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings," and that is why we can't put down our smartphones, or bear to log off. We tell ourselves that we live so much of our lives in cyberspace because when we are there, we are connected—we are plugged into a swirling party with billions of people.

If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions!?

in a culture where people are not "getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings," and that is why we can't put down our smartphones, or bear to log off.

The stunning thing was that loneliness is not merely the result of depression," he told me. "Indeed—it leads to depression.

Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long time spans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

A one-way relationship can't cure loneliness. Only two-way (or more) relationships can do that.

Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 42.

If your picture of a perfect afterlife is being with the people you love all the time, he asked me, why wouldn't you choose today—while you're still alive—to be truly present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions?

It's worth repeating. Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.