Quotes about Relationships

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.

But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.

I want ordinary corrupt human love

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.

I have always liked fat men. They have given up all unnecessary effort, for they have had the sense to realize that women do not, as men do, fall in love with physical beauty. Curran was stout and so was your father. It's easier to feel at home with a fat man.

Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

He never listened while his wife talked.

It is important that we never separate our love for God from our love for others. For loving our neighbors as ourselves is one central way we love God.

God doesn't depend primarily on the words of his disciples, nor on their clever apologetic arguments, nor on their ability to concoct ingenious marketing techniques. God relies on his disciples participating in the love that he is and thus replicating it toward each other within the body and toward all others outside the body.