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
"We cannot live only for ourselves—every action affects those around us."Leo Tolstoy
"The bonds between people are more fragile than we suppose."James Joyce
"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
"Marriage is either a tomb or a paradise; there is no middle ground."Anton Chekhov
"Familiarity breeds not contempt but indifference."Anton Chekhov
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."William Butler Yeats
"The beauty of association can be sweetness."Thomas Hardy
"Relationships require patience and understanding."Thomas Hardy
"I prefer the wit of one, before the wisdom of many."Oscar Wilde
"I like talking to you. Your mind is like a fireworks display."Oscar Wilde
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary."Oscar Wilde
"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
"Affection creates a bond stronger than steel."James Joyce
"Love is the bridge between two souls."Leo Tolstoy
"There is some charm about the very meaninglessness of their talk."George Eliot
"To me, it seemed that loneliness was the worst kind of poverty."George Eliot
"Women are not to be won by force or argument."Thomas Hardy
"A woman rarely thinks of her husband when she is thinking of his house."Thomas Hardy
"The deepest connections are made in silence."Thomas Hardy
"The passionate intensity of one becomes the cold certainty of another."William Butler Yeats
"The heart asks a more direct route."William Butler Yeats
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the human heart."Emily Brontë
"Independence is middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another."George Bernard Shaw
"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
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."Oscar Wilde
"An ideal husband is any man who has learned to say 'Yes, dear' at the right moments."Oscar Wilde