Relationship Quotes And Sayings

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“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”
– Margaret George

“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”
– Marian Keyes

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
– Martha Gellhorn

“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
– Meghan O’Rourke

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
– Michael Ondaatje

“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
– Milan Kundera

“Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take everything.”
– Milan Kundera

“I used to think I knew everything. I was a “smart person” who “got things done,” and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
– Mitch Albom

“Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
– Nicholas Sparks

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Love doesn’t mean anything if you’re not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Theresa, I know there’s a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can’t. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can’t do it for him.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I used to think–and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do–that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you’ve got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”
– Nick Hornby

“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
– Nick Hornby

“You don’t fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don’t take him at all…adjustments can’t be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what’s being built just falls down.”
– Nora Roberts

“This emotion I’m feeling now, this is love, right?”
– Orson Scott Card

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”
– Pandora Poikilos

“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
– Patrick Rothfuss

“You want me to act like we’ve never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we’ve never met , and I’ve tried and I’ve tried, but I haven’t yet… You walk by, and I fall to pieces.”
– Patsy Cline

“Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.”
– Patti Callahan Henry

“He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.”
– Paulo Coelho

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
– Pietro Aretino

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