Quotes About Relationship

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Estar contigo o no estar contigo, es la medida de mi tiempo.

The exchange of thoughts is a condition necessary for all love, all friendship and all real dialogue. Two men who can speak together can enrich and broaden themselves indefinitely.

Being with you or without you is how I measure my time.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Il libro non è un ente chiuso alla comunicazione: è una relazione, è un asse di innumerevoli relazioni.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word.

Para un hombre célibe entrado en años, el ofrecido amor es un don que ya no se espera.

El orden inferior es un espejo del orden superior; las formas de la tierra corresponden a las formas del cielo; las manchas de la piel son un mapa de las incorruptibles constelaciones; Judas refleja de algún modo a Jesús.

No nos une el amor sino el espanto; Será por eso que la quiero tanto.

each time I cross one of the streets in South Buenos Aires, I think of you, Helen;

Dios nos había creado, pero no podía crear el amor. Si quería que existiera el amor fuera de Él, tenía que crear seres libres. Si quería que existieran seres libres, tenía que dotarles de inteligencia y voluntad. El amor debía ser nuestra respuesta. Dios no quería esclavos.

This, presumably, means that we are now in league with life.

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit: The lower lip is like his fiancee. But that which splits in two will surely split into two hundred just as easily. And everything that's been twofold is then accountable, is then no longer moot.

This," I said, "could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward.

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

The girl was absorbed in him, without consciousness or shame.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

a complicated story. Indeed all of these get to be pretty complicated. But Isis and her husband Osiris

It took me a long time to get around to marriage, principally because I felt that women always wanted to have fun, and that was not my interest at all. It would interfere with my reading. That's really the truth.