Relationships Quotes

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

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"One cannot be anything without society"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind."
Marcel Proust
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"True relationships are built on mutual vulnerability."
Marcel Proust
"To understand another is to elevate them and yourself."
Romain Rolland
"Relationships are the vessels in which we pour our souls."
Romain Rolland
"The only thing that determines human happiness is the quality of our relationships."
André Gide
"What makes life worth living is not our accomplishments but our connections."
André Gide
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver."
Albert Camus
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"I love humanity but I hate humans."
Denis Diderot
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"Relationships require honesty and trust."
Denis Diderot
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"Hate is a profound respect for another's freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Social relationships are built on mutual recognition of freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"It is possible to love a person without wanting to live with them."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"The other is perceived not as a complement but as a limit."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"A relationship founded on dependence is a relationship of mutual imprisonment."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"The most important relationship we have is the one with ourselves."
Simone de Beauvoir
"I love humanity, it's people I can't stand."
André Gide
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"The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind."
Marcel Proust
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"The intermittences of the heart are the secret of human life."
Marcel Proust
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"The cruelest thing a man can do is to abandon one who loves him for another."
Marcel Proust
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"Our life with other people is only the life that matters."
Marcel Proust
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"The deepest human need is to be understood."
Marcel Proust
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"We love in our early years but grow in understanding."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Hell is other people."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Each person is an absolute to himself and we recognize him thus."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Sexuality is an expression of the whole personality and not just a physical act."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"The surest way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you think him a fool."
Denis Diderot
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"The closer bonds are, the more they matter to our peace."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The heart speaks a language that reason does not understand."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau