Relationship Quotes

The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Friendship often leads to love, but lust seldom lead to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

If I never met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
- William James

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

Funny Relationship Quotes

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
- Steve Martin

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Sanders

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
- Mae West

I love to shop after a bad relationship. ... Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.
- Anonymous

The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Bill Wilson (disputed)

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be.
- Anonymous

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

The love in your heart
Wasn't put there to stay.
Love isn't love till you give it away.
- Reba McEntire

Guys are like stars, there are millions of them, but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls can flirt.
- Anonymous

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
- Charles Baudelaire

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
- Jeanne Bourgeois

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
- Woodrow Wyatt

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand

Love doesn't make the world go 'round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin

Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Bad Relationships

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
- John Dos Passos

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

New Relationships

Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran

Marriage

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Martin Luther

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Love

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves

Love your spouse as they are, and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran

Every day is Christmas when you are open to receiving love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran

Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Inspirational Love

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sad Relationship Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
- James Taylor

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

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