#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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”

“Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.”

“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”

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

“What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.”

“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.”

“Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.”

“There's a path from your HEART to mine.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The only way to measure a loveris by the grandeur of the beloved.”

“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.”

“You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.”

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.”

“I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.”

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”

“Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.”

“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.”