Quotes about Relationships

Because love means renouncing strength.

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

Then what do you care about?' 'Love', she said with a smile. 'Love?' Franz asked in amazement. 'Love is a battle', said Marie-Claude, still smiling. 'And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.' 'Love is a battle? said Franz. 'Well, I don't feel at all like fighting.' And he left.

The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated

Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.