Relationships Quotes
Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.
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"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."Honoré de Balzac
"The dance between lover and beloved creates its own music."Honoré de Balzac
"In relationships, honesty is both the foundation and the greatest test."Honoré de Balzac
"Every human creature is constituted to be that sweet security for some other."John Keats
"Take the sweetest drop the whole world has to offer and it becomes less valuable when it cannot be shared."John Keats
"We live by admiration, hope, and love."William Wordsworth
"Absence from those we love is self from self."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love"Lord Byron
"There is a strength in the union of love"Lord Byron
"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me."Mary Shelley
"The human soul craves connection above all else."Mary Shelley
"The supreme unhappiness of life is the conviction that we are not loved."Victor Hugo
"A person is not who they are during the last conversation you had with them."Victor Hugo
"Have you any idea how pleasant it is to like you?"Jane Austen
"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone."Jane Austen
"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us perfect for one another."Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife."Jane Austen
"I could not be happy with a man whose tastes did not in every point coincide with my own."Jane Austen
"Relationships are the measure of a life well-lived."William Wordsworth
"Relationships are mirrors reflecting our own souls."Lord Byron
"Relationships require the vulnerability of true presence."Lord Byron
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel them all."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nature has made a man for society."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have had a thousand different conceptions of you."John Keats
"Among unequals what society can sort, what harmony or true delight?"John Milton
"He for God only, she for God in him."John Milton
"If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last"William Shakespeare
"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."Lord Byron
"If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? With silence and tears."Lord Byron
"In relationships, vulnerability is not weakness but the deepest form of strength."John Milton