Over the course of your life, you will encounter many different kinds of relationships. There will be friendships, lovers, long-term partners and oftentimes the types of relationships that defy labels altogether. Each relationship will bring something new to your life or bring something new out of yourself; each is an opportunity to learn and to grow and to be challenged. Reading through these relationship quotes will encourage you to take stock of the relationships you have in your life and all the different things they bring to you.
‘We are most alive when we’re in love.”—John Updike
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
—Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
—Audrey Hepburn
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
—Dr. Seuss
“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.” – Love & Other Drugs
“Affection is when you see someone’s strengths; love is when you accept someone’s flaws.” – One Day
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
“Since the invention of the kiss, there have been only five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.” – The Princess Bride
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” – Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
“Marion and I have not climbed Mount Everest or written a great American novel. But we’ve had the joy of raising two wonderful kids, and watching them and their friends grow up into loving adults. And now, we’re gonna have the pleasure of watching them pass that love onto their children. And I guess no man or woman could ask for anything more.” – Happy Days
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao-Tzu
“Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going.” – Practical Magic
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” –Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved
“I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Moonrise Kingdom
Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not.” – Everybody Loves Raymond
“All at once everything is different/Now that I see you.” – Lyrics from “I See the Light,” Tangled
“… When I look at you, I can feel it. And… and I look, and I… and I’m home.” – Finding Nemo
“You are my greatest adventure.” – The Incredibles
“Love isn’t hopeless. Look, maybe I’m no expert on the subject, but there was one time I got it right.” – The Simpsons
“But for now, let me say…without hope or agenda…to me, you are perfect. And my wasted heart will love you.” – Love Actually
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendents
“We were together even when we were apart.” – Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight
“I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.” – Atonement
“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Moonrise Kingdom
“… When I look at you, I can feel it. And… and I look, and I… and I’m home.” – Finding Nemo
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s alright to kiss me anytime you feel like it.” –The Hunger Games
“It don’t take a word, not a single word. Go on and kiss the girl.” – The Little Mermaid
“Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
—Eva Gabor
“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
—Doménico Cieri Estrada
“Good luck finding somebody to put up with your shit for more than, like, six months. Okay? But I accept the whole package, the crazy and the brilliant. Alright? I know you’re not gonna change and I don’t want you to. It’s called accepting you for being you.” – Before Midnight
“Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
—Fraklin P. Jones
“Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.”
—N.R. Heart
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I love her, and it is the beginning of everything.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.”
—Mac (J.K. Simmons), from Juno
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
—Albert Einstein
“… I know I’m old enough to be his mother, but when the Duck laid that kiss on me last night, I swear my thighs just went up in flames! He must practice on melons or something.” – Pretty in Pink
“She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry.” – St. Elmo’s Fire
“Yes, I’m drunk. And you’re beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I’ll be sober but you’ll still be beautiful.” – The Dreamers
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” – Sex and the City
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
—Anais Nin
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
—Nicholas Sparks, from At First Sight
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.”
—Sophocles
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
—Patrick Rothfuss, from The Wise Man’s Fear
“Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.”
—Anonymous
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
—Marcel Proust
“You’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.”
—Kathleen (Meg Ryan), from You’ve Got Mail
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
—Yoko Ono
“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
—Carroll Bryant
“Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person.”
—Kermit the Frog
“Nobody has ever measured—not even poets—how much love the human heart can hold.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald
“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.”
—Samuel Johnson
“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
— Swedish Proverb
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
Whether you’re observing and appreciating your romantic relationships or you’re feeling grateful for your very best friends, these quotes about relationships will help you put words to the way your closest friends and lovers make you feel.These quotes about relationships can also be especially useful if you’re struggling to express how you feel. For people who aren’t always eager to speak their feelings aloud, writing a letter is a great way to tell the people in your life how important they are to you. And if you can’t seem to find the right words to say, one of these relationship quotes might offer the perfect phrasing of the thought you constantly have about your loved one.