Quotes about Relationships
All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord Brightlingsea was swept through life on a steady amnesiac flow.
— Edith Wharton
What do you call the weak point? He paused. The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.
— Edith Wharton
He could not bear the thought that a barrier of words should drop between them again
— Edith Wharton
You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My God! I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.
— Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
— Edith Wharton
It did not occur to her that Selden might have been actuated merely by the desire to spend a Sunday out of town: women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.
— Edith Wharton
Any personal entanglement might mean bother, and bother was the thing she most abhorred.
— Edith Wharton
Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.
— Edith Wharton
Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.
— Edward Welch
Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
— Edward Welch
Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.
— Edward Welch
When happy, we possess something we love; when anxious, something we love is at risk; when despondent, something we love has been lost; when angry, something we love is being stolen or kept from us.
— Edward Welch