Relationships Quotes
Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.
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"Betrayal is a fundamental part of human relationships."Philip Roth
"Loyalty is an obsolete concept."Philip Roth
"The so-called generation gap is really a metaphor for the failure to communicate."David Foster Wallace
"Connection happens when we're brave enough to be genuinely ourselves."David Foster Wallace
"We confuse being connected with actually being understood."David Foster Wallace
"Relationships require a courage most of us do not possess."Saul Bellow
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."J.D. Salinger
"Girls. Jesus Christ. They kill me."J.D. Salinger
"I'd probably be married by now if I wasn't so phony."J.D. Salinger
"People are idiots, but we need them."Joseph Heller
"In relationships, honesty is both the hardest and easiest thing."Joseph Heller
"In the end, we're all just trying to avoid feeling alone."Joseph Heller
"There is nothing more important than good food and good company."Philip Roth
"The greatest gift is to be understood by another human being."Philip Roth
"Relationships are the arena where we discover who we really are."Norman Mailer
"One of the few good things about modern times is that it is now possible for a boy and girl to innocently mistake a beautiful sexual experience for a romantic one."Kurt Vonnegut
"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women."Kurt Vonnegut
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."William S. Burroughs
"The so-called 'typical' web experience these days is just a portal to loneliness dressed up as connection."David Foster Wallace
"The modern condition is isolation masked as community."David Foster Wallace
"We love irony because it lets us not commit."David Foster Wallace
"Addiction is the opposite of connection."David Foster Wallace
"The worst thing is not to be alone, but to feel alone while with others."David Foster Wallace
"The difficulty is to associate with people who are not entirely stupid."Saul Bellow
"You're sick and tired, and I'm sick of you being sick and tired."Joseph Heller
"Relationships require more honesty than we're comfortable giving."Joseph Heller
"We cannot live only for ourselves—a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."Philip Roth
"Betrayal is the deepest cut because it comes from someone you trusted."Philip Roth
"The most painful human experience is misunderstanding."Philip Roth
"The deepest connections are formed through shared vulnerability."Philip Roth