Relationships Quotes

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

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"The supreme experience is the feeling of genuine connection."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"We cannot live only for ourselves—every action affects those around us."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The bonds between people are more fragile than we suppose."
James Joyce
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"The greatest gift one can offer is one's authentic self."
James Joyce
"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes."
Samuel Beckett
"The moment we cease to understand each other."
Samuel Beckett
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"Marriage is either a tomb or a paradise; there is no middle ground."
Anton Chekhov
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"Familiarity breeds not contempt but indifference."
Anton Chekhov
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
William Butler Yeats
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"The beauty of association can be sweetness."
Thomas Hardy
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"Relationships require patience and understanding."
Thomas Hardy
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"I prefer the wit of one, before the wisdom of many."
Oscar Wilde
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"I like talking to you. Your mind is like a fireworks display."
Oscar Wilde
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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary."
Oscar Wilde
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"Most women are so artificial that they have no effect whatsoever on me."
Oscar Wilde
"I don't love humanity but I love humans."
Samuel Beckett
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"Affection creates a bond stronger than steel."
James Joyce
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"Love is the bridge between two souls."
Leo Tolstoy
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"There is some charm about the very meaninglessness of their talk."
George Eliot
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"To me, it seemed that loneliness was the worst kind of poverty."
George Eliot
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"Women are not to be won by force or argument."
Thomas Hardy
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"A woman rarely thinks of her husband when she is thinking of his house."
Thomas Hardy
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"The deepest connections are made in silence."
Thomas Hardy
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"The passionate intensity of one becomes the cold certainty of another."
William Butler Yeats
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"The heart asks a more direct route."
William Butler Yeats
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"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the human heart."
Emily Brontë
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"Independence is middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
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"An ideal husband is any man who has learned to say 'Yes, dear' at the right moments."
Oscar Wilde