Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"In this world of ours, the pain of losing someone you care about is inevitable."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The worthiest record is the worth of those we love."
Emily Dickinson
"Relationships are mirrors."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"There is nothing interesting except in relations."
Henry James
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"Relationships are mirrors of our own souls."
François Mauriac
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"Every relationship teaches us something about ourselves."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
Herman Melville
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"There is a man-of-war and a woman of peace."
Herman Melville
"Relationships are two people pretending to understand each other."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"We forgive those we love far more than they deserve and far less than we should."
François Mauriac
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"We seek in others what we fear to find in ourselves."
François Mauriac
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"Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night had Numbed it but her sweet Weight."
Emily Dickinson
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"There's no greater bliss than mutuality."
Henry James
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"There is nothing like an exchange of confidences to create intimacy."
Henry James
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"There is strength in the breaking down of walls between hearts."
Herman Melville
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"How little do we know the heart and soul of anyone after all."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The greatest trust between a man and a woman is established when one freely permitting such spiritual exploration."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"To be left alone is indeed a species of privation and hurt."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Misery is a communicative passion."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Relationships are contracts written in the blood of compromise."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Relationships teach us the limits of our capacity to hurt."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Relationships are the heart of humanity."
Romain Rolland
"Relationships require honesty."
Romain Rolland
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"We love people for their flaws as much as for their virtues."
François Mauriac
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"The deepest loneliness comes from being misunderstood by those closest to us."
François Mauriac
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"The true art of conversation is not to understand men, but to listen to them"
Henry James
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"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated"
Henry James
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"The deepest conversations happen in silence between kindred souls"
Henry James
"The relationship between writer and reader is sacred."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind."
Marcel Proust