Quotes about Relationships

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.