Relationships Quotes

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

20931 quotes

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"The human heart is like a mirror; reflect kindness and you receive it back."
Anne Brontë
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"The heart's desires often conflict with duty's demands."
Anne Brontë
"We cannot live only for ourselves."
Émile Zola
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"A wife does not control her husband; she neither can nor should attempt to do so."
Charlotte Brontë
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"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it."
Emily Brontë
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"The heart's desires are often at odds with the mind's wisdom."
Emily Brontë
"The more one loves a woman, the more one hates her."
Gustave Flaubert
"I am always irritated by letters."
Gustave Flaubert
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"There is no greater torment than to be invisible."
George Eliot
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"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."
George Eliot
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"Intellectual companionship is the highest form of intimacy."
George Eliot
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"The world seems to me to change with each new person we love."
George Eliot
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"The deepest need of the human soul is the need to be understood."
George Eliot
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"The foundation of all relationships is the willingness to understand another."
George Eliot
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"I believe the sharp hit of jealousy knows no greater pain"
Charles Dickens
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"Relationships require patience, understanding, and love"
Charles Dickens
"Relationships are the true currency of human experience."
Émile Zola
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"The woman we love always has something in common with the woman we hate."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but one must know how to play it."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The marriage of two people is like the alliance of two States."
Honoré de Balzac
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"A man who is unfaithful to a woman has no respect for her."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The chain of communication broken, what can be done?"
Charlotte Brontë
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"Submission and a bound and stinted affection are all I can expect."
Charlotte Brontë
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"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The days we live through with other people are the ones that make us human."
Victor Hugo
"Every minute a man is not thinking of his wife is infidelity."
Gustave Flaubert
"Marriage is a commercial institution."
Gustave Flaubert
"The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we cease to hold the world."
Émile Zola
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"Relationships are the fabric of our existence."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Relationships require vulnerability and trust."
Alexandre Dumas