Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
— As You Like It
Quotes About Relationships
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry located the grandeur of a profession in uniting men, and called human relationships the only true luxury. Lord Byron saw the same bond from the other side: a woman who gives any advantage to a man can expect a lover, but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
The writers span the practical and the despairing. Shakira insists that relationships need a give and take to work in the long term. Flaubert points out that exact communication is nearly impossible, which is why perfect relationships are difficult to find. Woolf goes further, calling love an illusion, a story one makes up about another person, and notes that one always takes care not to destroy it. Kafka tells a beloved that she simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all his misery. Kierkegaard would have us concentrate only on what is most significant and important. Camus admits he advertised his loyalty and does not believe there is a single person he loved that he did not eventually betray, a confession that makes the whole enterprise sound fragile.
The writers span the practical and the despairing. Shakira insists that relationships need a give and take to work in the long term. Flaubert points out that exact communication is nearly impossible, which is why perfect relationships are difficult to find. Woolf goes further, calling love an illusion, a story one makes up about another person, and notes that one always takes care not to destroy it. Kafka tells a beloved that she simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all his misery. Kierkegaard would have us concentrate only on what is most significant and important. Camus admits he advertised his loyalty and does not believe there is a single person he loved that he did not eventually betray, a confession that makes the whole enterprise sound fragile.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
— The Picture of Dorian Gray
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
— Emma
how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.
— The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.
— Great Expectations
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
— The Fall
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
— Anna Karenina
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
— Men Without Women
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.
— Murder Is Easy
Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
— One Hundred Years of Solitude
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
— Sentimental Education
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
— The Second Sex
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
— Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
— The Three Sisters
Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.
— The Wild Ass's Skin
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps
— The Communist Manifesto
Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much / Just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever / And better be alone, than with whoever.
— Rubaiyat
Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.
— Around the World in Eighty Days
There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities
— The Misanthrope
There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.
— The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.
— Human, All Too Human
But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
— Ideas and Opinions