53 Inspiring Relationship Quotes

In our lives, relationships serve as both anchors and sails, guiding us through calm and stormy seas alike. Whether it's the unwavering bond between partners, the cherished connection with family, or the supportive embrace of friendship, these relationships shape our journey in profound ways. To celebrate the essence and beauty of these connections, we've gathered a selection of the top 53 inspiring relationship quotes. Each quote is a reflection on the joys, challenges, and resilience that define our bonds, offering wisdom, comfort, and motivation. Dive into this collection to find words that resonate with your own experiences and perhaps offer new perspectives on the relationships that enrich your life.

1. “When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

2. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ” - Michael Pollan

3. “Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.” - Amy Sedaris

4. “How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.” - Margaret Atwood

5. “Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” - Doug Fetherling

6. “About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.” - Stephen King

7. “I pictured Cupid sitting in a crappy little bar, drunk and depressed, while he moaned to the bartender, "That Jasmine Parks, gods, she pisses me off! Did you see what she just did? Totally blew off this immortal stud to play kiss-the-boo-boo with a fickle little rent-a-cop. Why? 'Cause she's the biggest chickenshit on the planet! I'm ready to toss my bow and pick up a bazooka!” - Jennifer Rardin

8. “It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.” - John Grogan

9. “Oh, you know. Jace reminds me of an old boyfriend. Some guys look at you like they want sex. Jace looks at you like you've already had sex, it was great, and now you're just friends--even though you want more. Drives girls crazy. You know what I mean?" Yes, Clary thought. "No," she said.pg. 280” - Cassandra Clare

10. “I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.” - Alice Hoffman

11. “In relationships, there are no beginning and no end.” - Santosh Kalwar

12. “Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought she herself was responsible for it. Just before everyone had arrived, she'd told Peter about her adventure with Gamache. Animated and excited she'd gabbled on about her box and the woods and the exhilarating climb up the ladder to the blind. But her wall of words hid from her a growing quietude. She failed to notice his silence, his distance, until it was too late and he'd retreated all the way to his icy island. She hated that place. From it he stood and stared, judged, and lobbed shards of sarcasm.'You and your hero solve Jane's death?''I thought you'd be pleased,' she half lied. She actually hadn't thought at all, and if she had, she probably could have predicted his reaction. But since he was comfortably on his Inuk island, she'd retreat to hers, equipped with righteous indignation and warmed by moral certitude. She threw great logs of 'I'm right, you're an unfeeling bastard' onto the fire and felt secure and comforted.” - Louise Penny

13. “As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.” - Barbara Bush

14. “Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He'd given them better faces. Space. Take moths. They fly at the lamp and burn themsleves, and then they fly right back again. It can't be instinct, because it isn't the way it works. They just don't understand, so they go right on doing it. Then they lie on their backs and all their legs quiver, and then they're dead. Did you get all that? Does it sound good?""Very good," Grandmother said.Sophia stood up and shouted, "Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help! Did you write that?” - Tove Jansson

15. “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” - Haruki Murakami

16. “When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)” - Sophie Kinsella

17. “flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.” - David Levithan

18. “Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again.” - Richie singh

19. “Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” - Shannon Alder

20. “Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.” - T.F. Hodge

21. “I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.” - Maggie Stiefvater

22. “Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.” - Timothy Keller

23. “I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close.” - Rachel Machacek

24. “In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.” - Anthony D. Ravenscroft

25. “I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.” - Christine Feehan

26. “When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

27. “I'm always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn't Helen anymore. She hasn't changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can't understand why I don't want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don't lose love like keys?” - Cath Crowley

28. “Earlier in this book I noted that one of my favorite sayings is “You get what you tolerate.” This applies in spades to your relationships. Failing to speak up about something carries the implication that you are OK with it—that you are prepared to continue tolerating it. As a companion saying goes, “Silence means consent.” If you tolerate snide or offensive remarks from your boss or colleague, the remarks will continue. If you tolerate your spouse’s lack of consideration for your feelings, it will continue. If you tolerate the disregard of people who regularly turn up late for meetings or social engagements, they will continue to keep you cooling your heels. If you tolerate your child’s lack of respect, you will continue to get no respect. Each time you tolerate a behavior, you are subtly teaching that person that it is OK to treat you that way.” - Margie Warrell

29. “Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul.” - Habeeb Akande

30. “I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.” - Kate Chisman

31. “When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.” - Leslie Vernick

32. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.” - Eartha Kitt

33. “If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more” - Ashly Lorenzana

34. “Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.” - Nicole McKay

35. “You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.” - Jocelyn Davies

36. “I'm not going to run if you were not running along with me, and I'm not going to walk if you were not walk beside me.” - chawil

37. “Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

38. “On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.” - Kimberly Novosel

39. “The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.” - Nicole Peeler

40. “Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.” - Chriscinthia Blount

41. “Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.” - Gary Chapman

42. “What happened was this: I got an image in my head that never got out. We see a great many things and can remember a great many things, but that is different. We get very few of the true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind that become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality but, year by year, drew off another veil to expose a meaning which we had only dimly surmised at first. Very probably the last veil will not be removed, for there are not enough years, but the brightness of the image increases and our conviction increases that the brightness is meaning, or the legend of meaning, and without the image our lives would be nothing except an old piece of film rolled on a spool and thrown into a desk drawer among the unanswered letters.” - Robert Penn Warren

43. “Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.” - Kim Cattrall

44. “Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

45. “The inner man is the periphery of our consciousness. It is also the inner man that takes care of and protects the inner woman for example through putting up creative boundaries. The meeting between a man and a woman on the outer plane creates a relationship. This relationship is not a conflict, but they complement each other. The outer meeting between a man and a woman also creates integration between our own inner male and female sides.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

46. “A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.” - Habeeb Akande

47. “Some people want it all and expect it all; always looking outward, so often proclaiming what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them. Do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have?” - Donna Lynn Hope

48. “It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that’s not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. . . . Or maybe I’ve had it wrong all along. Since friendships usually outlast relationships, why shouldn’t friends receive preferential treatment?Because you don’t sleep with your friends!” - Daria Snadowsky

49. “People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.” - Donna Lynn Hope

50. “Our relationships are nourished and shaped by the commitment we express through our actions. Don't just speak; ACT!” - Steve Maraboli

51. “Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.” - George Alexiou

52. “Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.” - Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

53. “All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.” - Tim LaHaye