Quotes About Relationship

Someone we regard highly comes closer to us when he performs an action unworthy of him--thereby he releases us from the cavalry of veneration. And starting from that moment we feel a true attachment to him.

I want to look after her. I cannot begin to look after her: she looks after me and that's how we work.

You would have been happy with a wife who adored you, not someone who clung on to you like a life raft on a stormy sea and then wished she could cast you aside and move on when she reached land.

In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

When you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Personal connection builds trust;connection to the task builds energy.

The facts of two things being often found together is rather a reason for, than an objection to, separating them, in idea. Sometimes they are NOT found together, and then we may be puzzled if we have not trained ourselves to separate them.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Trust is the backbone of a relationship. Without trust the building of relationship can't stand.

I pulled her to her feet. But, naked as I was, and holding her against me, I realized that I did not really feel for her what I had felt for Madeleine, whom I knew I did not love, several hours before. I felt a terrible constriction. It felt, I think, like death. I loved Barbara. I knew it then, and I really know it now; but what, I asked myself, was I to do with her?

He did not seem to know enough about the people in his novel. They did not seem to trust him.

When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had.

We had known each other for many years; starved together, worked together, loved each other, suffered each other, made love; and yet the most tremendous consummation of our love was occurring now, as she patiently, in love and terror, held my hand.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.

If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.

The bed is the whole of marriage.

When, after remaining a long time aloof from her husband, a woman makes overtures of a very marked character in order to attract his love, she acts in accordance with the axiom of maritime law, which says: The flag protects the cargo.