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You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet · 1923

★ 1.9

Film · Animation (film) · Animation

No, of course I like you. It's because I like you I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

Marlin

Finding Nemo · 2003

★ 1.9

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

I wish I had stayed, too. Now I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 2.0

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

When you’re in a relationship, you’re in a band. And when you’re in a band you have roles that you play in the band. Sometimes you sing lead, and sometimes you’re on tambourine.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 2.0

Standup comedy · Comedy

Chris Rock

Tamborine · 2008

★ 2.0

Interview

Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

2014

★ 2.0

Thrice blessed (and more) are they whom an unbroken bond holds and whose love, never strained by nasty quarrels, will not slip until their dying day.

Horace

Odes · 23 BC

★ 2.1

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1856

★ 2.1

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing · 1972

★ 2.1

I can’t be with someone like me. I hate myself! If anything, I need to get the exact opposite of me. It’s too much. It’s too much Kramer, I can’t take it. I can’t take it.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1996

★ 2.1

Elaine, breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round.

You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

Jack Twist

Brokeback Mountain · 2005

★ 2.1

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

You're young. Right now, you see settling as some sort of a failure.

Alex Goran

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 2.1

Almanac

Happy’s the Wooing that’s not long a doing.

Benjamin Franklin

1734

★ 2.2

This woman hates me so much, I'm starting to like her.

George Costanza

Seinfeld · 1993

★ 2.2

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

People have to share things, Joel. That's what intimacy is.

Clementine Kruczynski

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 2.3

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

1966

★ 2.8

Song · Soul

What you want baby, I got it What you need, do you know I got it? All I'm askin' is for a little respect when you come home.

Otis Redding

Respect · 1965

★ 2.9

Novel · Feminist literature

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying · 1973

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

Personality, I mean, that's what counts, right? Personality, that's what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin. I mean, heroin's got great fucking personality!

Sick Boy

Trainspotting · 1996

★ 3.5

Letter

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1902

★ 3.5

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

Stanley Kunitz

1930

★ 3.5

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

1937

★ 3.5

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind... But we won't break.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 3.5

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Wallace Stegner

All the Little Live Things · 1967

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama · Romantic comedy

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies, and I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Alvy Singer

Annie Hall · 1977

★ 3.6

Film · Road movie · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife.

Del Griffith

Planes, Trains and Automobiles · 1987

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met, she's isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.

You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

Celine

Before Sunset · 2004

★ 3.6

Film · Martial arts (film) · Action (film) · Martial arts · Action

You're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person, but every once in a while, you can be a real cunt.

Bill (Kill Bill: Volume 2)

Kill Bill: Volume 2 · 2004

★ 3.6

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforcèd ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 3.7

Letter

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

1862

★ 3.7

Play

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance · 1893

★ 3.7

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage · 1915

★ 3.7

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to.

People call these things imperfections, but they're not. That's the good stuff and then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.7

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

Good Will Hunting · 1997

★ 3.7

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.

Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

For we do not easily expect evil of those whom we love most.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

Peter Abelard

1132

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play)

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content.

William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor · 1602

★ 3.8

Play · History (play)

He is the half part of a blessèd man, Left to be finishèd by such as she, And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 3.8

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Daniel Deronda · 1876

★ 3.8

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.

Mia Wallace

Pulp Fiction · 1994

★ 3.8

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9