Relationship quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of friendship, for parents, for bestfriend, life.
Total 257 quotes relationship, filter:
„When love is not madness it is not love.“
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca Spanish dramatist 1600 - 1681
„We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.“
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
„It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.“
— Epicurus ancient Greek philosopher -341 - -269 BC
„Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.“
— Karl Menninger American psychiatrist 1893 - 1990
„One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.“
— Seneca the Younger Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4 - 65 BC
„In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.“
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
„To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.“
— Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998
„Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.“
— Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998
„Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.“
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French writer and aviator 1900 - 1944
„Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.“
— Khalil Gibran, book The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
„All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.“
— Charles M. Schulz American cartoonist 1922 - 2000
„If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.“
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
„The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.“
— Eden ahbez American songwriter and recording artist 1908 - 1995
"Nature Boy" (1948)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
His assertion to Joe Romersa, of how his lyrics should be corrected, saying that "To be loved in return, is too much of a deal, and that has nothing to do with love."
Context: While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."
My Day (1935–1962)
Context: It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
„When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us.“
— Tom Robbins, book Still Life with Woodpecker
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on — series polygamy — until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
„To live is to not know that one is living“
— Florbela Espanca Portuguese poet 1894 - 1930
Diary (20 April, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 262
Context: Sometimes I start looking at the mirror and examining myself, feature by feature: eyes, mouth, shape of the forehead, eyelids curve, the face line... And this vulgar and hideous-looking, grotesque and miserable amalgam, would it know how to do verses? Oh, no! There is something else … but what? After all, why think? To live is to not know that one is living... Why don't I forget that I am living... to live?
„One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.“
— Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
„A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.“
— Yoko Ono Japanese artist, author, and peace activist 1933
A line written by Ono many years before, and quoted by Lennon in December 1980, as quoted in All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000) by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, p. 16.
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
„A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
— Michael Jackson, book Dancing the Dream
Dancing the Dream (1992), also used in his funeral invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson" in CNN.com/entertainment (3 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
— Eugene Kennedy American psychologist 1928 - 2015
Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284
„It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.“
— Jayne Mansfield American actress, singer, model 1933 - 1967
Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79
„The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.“
— Honoré de Balzac French writer 1799 - 1850
L’homme qui nous parle est l’amant, l’homme qui ne nous parle plus est le mari.
Part I, ch. VII.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
„Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.“
— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 98
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Found anonymously in newspaper columns from the early 1920s http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/31/kiss. Originally presented in dialogue format https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5219841/safety_first/: "Dorcas—”Do you ever allow a man to kiss you when you’re out motoring with him? Philippa—"Never, if a man can drive safely while kissing me he’s not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
It does not seem to have been attributed to Einstein until the 1990s (e.g. here https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.freemasonry/YILn0A-U_WM/f1Grm2akU-4J).
Misattributed
„A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.“
— Walter Winchell American gossip journalist 1897 - 1972
Attributed
„Absence makes the heart grow fonder.“
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
— Propertius Latin elegiac poet -47 - -14 BC
II, xxxiii, 43.
Elegies
„Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.“
— Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983
Actually by the Chinese philosopher, educator and popular lecturer Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs, 1948.
Misattributed
Variant: Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
„If I know what love is, it is because of you.“
— Hermann Hesse, book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
„The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.“
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
— Helen Schucman Clinical Psychologist 1909 - 1981
Jesus' Course in Miracles (2000) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 162
„The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.“
— Willa Cather, book The Professor's House
Book I, Ch. 8
The Professor's House (1925)
„You are beautiful and you are alone.“
— Nico German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars 1938 - 1988
Afraid
„To love is to will the good of the other.“
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
„The business of business is business.“
— Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006
Widely attributed to Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles (1976) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.
Misattributed
„To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.“
— Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual teacher 1916 - 1993
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
„The future was not what it used to be.“
— K. A. Bedford, book Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
„The business of business is business.“
— Alfred P. Sloan American businessman 1875 - 1966
Widely attributed to Milton Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
„You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The White Company
The White Company (1891)
„An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.“
— Mahatma Gandhi pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948
1914: "If…we were to go back to…'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' there would be very few [Honourable] Gentlemen in this House who would not…be blind and toothless." — George Perry Graham, during a debate on capital punishment before the Canadian House of Commons. Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, Third Session-Twelfth Parliament, Vol CXIII, p. 496, February 5, 1914. http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC1203_01/508
1950: "An-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye … ends in making everybody blind" in The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer (1950), though Fischer did not attribute it to Gandhi and seemed to be giving his own description of Gandhi's philosophy.
1958: "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" in Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1958.
1982: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" in the 1982 film, Gandhi. In a 1993 biographical article about screenwriter John Briley, Jon Krampner wrote, "…Gandhi never said it. Michigan graduate John Briley put those pithy words in his mouth." From "John Briley '51 - Epic Screenwriter", Michigan Today, March 1993, p. 12. http://michigantoday.umich.edu/93/Mar_and_Oct_93/Mar_93/briley.html
2006: There is a quaternary source in Yale Book of Quotations http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w5-GR-qtgXsC&pg=PA269&dq=whole-world-blind+ (2006), in which editor Fred R. Shapiro states that the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence stated that Gandhi's family believes it authentic, but did not provide any further reference and provided no year, place or body of work.
2006: Discussed in The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When, by Ralph Keyes (2006), 1st ed., p. 74.
2010: Research detailed by Garson O'Toole in "An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/27/eye-for-eye-blind/ in Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/.
Misattributed
„You can have your cake and eat it, too.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
„To be in company is not to be with someone, but to be in someone.“
— Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968
Estar en compañía no es estar con alguien, sino estar en alguien.
Voces (1943)
„The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.“
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
„Assumptions are the termites of relationships.“
— Henry Winkler American actor, director and writer 1945
— Elizabeth Gilbert, book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
— Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
„Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.“
— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616
„We were together. I forget the rest.“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
„Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
„You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.“
— A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
„The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed
„When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes“
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
„Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
„You never fail until you stop trying.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
„Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
„There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
„Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.“
— Ian McEwan, book Atonement
Source: Atonement
„The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
„The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.“
— Jane Austen, book Love and Freindship
Source: Love and Friendship
„A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves“
— Greg Behrendt American comedian 1963
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
„We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„Happiness is feeling useful to others.“
— François Lelord, book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
— Robert Fulghum American writer 1937
Variant: You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Source: True Love (1998)
„For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.“
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
„The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.“
— Baz Luhrmann Australian film director, screenwriter and producer 1962
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
„Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.“
— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 251
„We love the things we love for what they are.“
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s