Relationship Quotes

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

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.

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

Love is a friendship set to music.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.

Are you the new person drawn toward me?

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

We were together. I forget the rest.

I want to be with you as much as possible, Ronnie. You're smart and funny and you're honest. I trust you. I trust us. Yeah, I'm leaving and you're going back home. But neither of those things changes the way I feel about you. And my feelings aren't going to change simply because I'm going to Vanderbilt. I love you more than I've ever loved anyone.

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

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.

I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

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.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

Black implies white self implies other

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a goodrelationship with life.

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

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

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.

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

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

She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?

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.

She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.