Quotes about Relationships
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— CS Lewis
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
— Albert Camus
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
— Oscar Wilde
To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.
— Anonymous
Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.
— J. Oswald Sanders
We can only know and understand ourselves fully through others — through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us.
— JM Coetzee
Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
— JM Coetzee
Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.
— JM Coetzee
Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.
— JM Coetzee
Even if you choose someone who is not necessarily the love of your life, married life will be better than what you have now, with just your father and yourself. It is not good to sleep alone night after night.
— JM Coetzee
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
— Jack Kerouac
ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you
— Jack Kerouac