Quotes about Relationships

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate. 

For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.