The various relationships we experience throughout our lives can bring us joy, pain, and profound insights into love. From life-changing romances to long-lasting friendships, relationship quotes can provide words to help us express our feelings, whether we are celebrating a milestone anniversary with a partner, expressing love to a new flame, or saying goodbye to a dear friend.
No one has ever claimed that maintaining relationships is simple. You could be feeling agitated in the presence of someone for whom you have strong feelings. Your relationship may have recently transitioned to a long-distance one and you may be having difficulty finding ways to show your significant other that you are thinking of them. Alternatively, you could be searching for the ideal Valentine’s Day quote that can capture your and your partner’s growth and experiences through the years or even decades. That is why the greatest relationships quotes are helpful, enabling you to verbalize what you want to express but are unable to put into words, as well as demonstrate your love in deeper and more meaningful ways.
BEST RELATIONSHIP QUOTES
“When we are passionate about something, we continually strive to better ourselves, and in turn, those around us benefit from the positive change. ” — Paulo Coelho
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allen Poe
“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.” — C. JoyBell C.
“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” — Leo F. Buscaglia
“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.” — Gabriela Mistral
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” — Pablo Neruda
“We cannot really love anyone with whom we never laugh.” — Agnes Repplier
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” — Hermann Hesse
“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.” — Lauryn Hill
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” — Henny Youngman
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” — Cassandra Clare
DEEP RELATIONSHIP QUOTES
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Gustav Jung
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” — Ernest Hemingway
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” — Criss Jami
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” — Alice Walker
“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” — Audre Lorde
“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends, we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.” — Isabel Allende
“Love is the absence of judgment.” — The 14th Dalai Lama
“You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.” — Bob Marley
“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” — Bob Marley
“I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.” — Shirley MacLaine
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” — William Shakespeare
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” — Joyce Meyer
“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine in yourself, so that you can hear it in others.”— Marian Wright Edelman
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any Happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”— Alice Walker
“Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.”— Audre Lorde
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” — Oprah Winfrey
“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” — Nina Simone
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.“ — Beyoncé
“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.” — Solange
“Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different.” — Sue Zhao
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” — Bryant H. McGill
“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo
“The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.”
“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” — Andy Warhol
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” — Natalie Cole
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller
“I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
QUOTES FOR A DISTANT PARTNER
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” — James Baldwin
“It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.” — Roy L. Pickering Jr
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” — Henry Winkler
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” — Julia Roberts
“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving
“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” — E.M. Forster
“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” — Anthony Storr
“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” — Richard Bach
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying good by so hard.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” — Thomas Fuller
“Distance teaches us to appreciate the days that we are able to spend together and distance teaches us the definition of patience. It is a reminder that every moment together is special, and every second should be cherished.” — Unknown
“I don’t miss you and you alone — I miss you and me together.” — Unknown
“If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” — Bernard Byer
“Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It’s for those who are willing to spending a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It’s for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough.” — Meghan Daum
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart.)” — E.E. Cummings