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Joel Barish5 quotes
What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger. — Joel Barish · 2004Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? — Joel Barish · 2004It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004I 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. — Joel Barish · 2004Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention? — Joel Barish · 2004William Shakespeare5 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600He 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 · 1616If 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 · 1602When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599And ruined love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. — William Shakespeare · 1609Sean4 quotes
You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Sean · 1997People 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. — Sean · 1997You'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. — Sean · 1997You 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. — Sean · 1997Chris Rock3 quotes
Relationships: easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Cause it’s hard to keep up the lie. 'Cause you can't get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can't get nobody lookin' like you look, actin' like you act, soundin' like you sound. That's right, when you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative! — Chris Rock · 1999Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender. — Chris Rock · 1996When 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. — Chris Rock · 2008Clementine Kruczynski3 quotes
People have to share things, Joel. That's what intimacy is. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004What if you stayed this time? — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004Fred Rogers2 quotes
You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today. — Fred Rogers · 2003Human 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 · 2003George Costanza2 quotes
Jerry, this woman hates me so much, I’m starting to like her. — George Costanza · 1993This woman hates me so much, I'm starting to like her. — George Costanza · 1993Jerry Seinfeld2 quotes
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 · 1997I 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 · 1996Rainer Maria Rilke2 quotes
We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1909I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1902Alex Goran1 quote
You're young. Right now, you see settling as some sort of a failure. — Alex Goran · 2009Alvy Singer1 quote
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 · 1977Antoine de Saint-Exupery1 quote
Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1939Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Happy’s the Wooing that’s not long a doing. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734Bill (Kill Bill: Volume 2)1 quote
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) · 2004Celine1 quote
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. — Celine · 2004Craig1 quote
I said "biiiitch"… — Craig · 2012Del Griffith1 quote
Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987Diana Athill1 quote
Relationships should be based on value and fact, on how you get on, on what things you enjoy together. I think romance has caused more unhappiness almost than anything. — Diana Athill · 2017Dorothy Parker1 quote
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 · 1937Emily Bronte1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Erica Jong1 quote
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 · 1973Georg Christoph Lichtenberg1 quote
I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others, he also hates himself in others. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg · 1779George Eliot1 quote
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. — George Eliot · 1876George Sand1 quote
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand · 1862Gustave Flaubert1 quote
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 · 1856Hank Williams1 quote
I can settle down and be doin' just fine
Till I hear an old freight rollin' down the line,
Then I hurry straight home and pack
And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack
I love you baby, but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man. — Hank Williams · 1951Henry James1 quote
I shall never marry; I regard that now as an established fact, and on the whole a very respectable one; I am both happy enough and miserable enough, as it is, and don't wish to add to either side of the account. — Henry James · 1884Horace1 quote
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 · 23 BCJack Twist1 quote
You know friend, this is a god damn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. — Jack Twist · 2005Kahlil Gibran1 quote
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 · 1923