Quotes About Relationship

What was it to know each other?

He felt to me increasingly like the parody of a love interest.

Isabel's friend Henrietta showed up, wanting Isabel to marry a square-jawed American who charismatically ran his father's cotton factory.

I forgave him for a lot when he said that. I forgave him for almost everything.

A literature major whom I knew slightly was walking her lame boyfriend around on a leash.

But I had never doubted that, when I got back to school, I would find an email from him, explaining everything. It was not, after all, conceivable that there was no explanation, or that the explanation could come from anyone else, or that it could come in any way other than email, since that was how everything had always happened between us.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

We lived together for a long time,' he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, 'we have no need to fight.' I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.

The Orthodox Church, as did the early Christians, does not separate the personal from the communal. We do not confuse "personal" with "individual." Our personal relationship with Jesus is anchored on our communal relationship to the Church as the nurturing and soul-sustaining Body of Christ.

All sin is against love. Our relationship to God is like the intimate relationship of husband and wife. As such, sin is infidelity to love. When we sin, we break not just a commandment; we break God's heart, as the heart of one partner in marriage is broken when the other is unfaithful. Sin is personal unfaithfulness to Christ our Bridgegroom.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair, "said G.K. Chesterton.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

ANDREW: You probably take it more seriously, that's all. MILO: You have to be serious if you want to be in love. ANDREW: You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love.

Domestic music-making has declined in recent years; but those who still engage in it know that making music together is an irreplaceable way of achieving closeness. The members of a string quartet sometimes develop a special intimacy which they claim is unmatched by any other relationship.

Psycho-analysts usually refer to this process as introjecting a good object; meaning by this that the attachment figure has become part of the individual's inner world, and therefore someone on whom he can rely even though the person concerned is not actually present.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you?

Le seul obstacle entre nous, disait-elle, c'est la boisson. - Je boirai l'obstacle, répondais-je

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

'Men have forgotten this truth ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.