Relationship Quotes

“When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.”

“Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.”

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.”

“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."”

“Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.”

“Frankness invites frankness.”

“There is a window between heart and heart:They are never separate like two bodies.Two lamps may not be united in their form -But their light merges into each other.”

“A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.”

“If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!”

“If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.”

“Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.”

“If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.”

“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”

“There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.”

“My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.”

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

“So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.”

“I had this thought a while ago,"My darling cannot understandWhat I have done, or what would doIn this blind bitter land."And I grew weary of the sun”

“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”

“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?”

“When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.”

“We were together. I forget the rest.”