Quotes about Relationships

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands, wives, lovers. There were also monogamy and romance. "Though you probably don't know what those are," said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads. Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopædic proverb.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.