Relationship Purgatory Quotes

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Many people are afraid of diving deep into a relationship but they are also afraid of leaving it which leaves them in a relationship purgatory. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I will love with all my soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life kills you more acutely than death.
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A saved relationship is no relationship, after all.
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I'm in need of someone who is ready to listen.
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We all have this special talent for hiding a truth by adding layers of lies on to it.
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When you are attached to one and attracted to another, then one's truth becomes the other's lie as long as you keep the truth away from each other.
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I still don't know why I chose her over you. I was so happy with you. Maybe I was happy with you but I wasn't happy with us. Those are two different things. People jump into a relationship when they experience the former.
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A break-up doesn't necessarily end the love two people have for each other. In fact some love stories never end. They only end something within the people involved. ~ Novoneel Chakraborty

You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup. ~ Alissa Nutting

Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature. ~ Lisa Unger

To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas A Kempis

The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship. ~ Shefali Tsabary

The second I realized I had nothing left to say is the exact moment I realized it was truly over. ~ Dominic Riccitello

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others. ~ Desmond Tutu

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. ~ Catherine Opie

Watch it, buster. There's only room for one sarcastic malcontent in this relationship. ~ Christine Warren

At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle. ~ Jack Nicholson

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about. ~ Rafe Spall

The key to a good relationship is forgiveness, because without it we're all completely screwed. ~ Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin

Harnessing likability is about uncovering what is authentically likable - in you, in the other person, in your connection. ~ Michelle Tillis Lederman

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley. ~ Anne Heche

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am. ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

In a relationship, we can pretend to be the same, to think the same, to feel the same, to dream the same, but there is no way that can happen. There are two dreamers with two dreams. ~ Miguel Ruiz

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often. ~ Saku Koivu

We have been together for 40 years, married for 36. There have been three times in our relationship when we were unable to resolve an issue on our own. We used all the skill that we have and yet it was still unresolved. In those three times we sought professional help because there was a blind spot for each of us. The therapist was able to listen to both of us and help us come to a place of resolution that we both felt good about. I feel very grateful for that help. Most times we have been able to work things through on our own. Sometimes we can clear the issue in a matter of a few minutes, sometimes an hour and sometimes it can take several days. But we still keep working on it until we both say that we feel complete, we understand our own part and responsibility in the issue rather than simply blaming each other, are willing to go on, and there is an even deeper connection and sometimes even humor to the situation. In working each issue through to completion we have been able to retain a beautiful lightness in our relationship that we both cherish. ~ Joyce Vissell

Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle. ~ Bell Hooks

There is no counterfeit emotion that rivals the peace in a relationship with God. ~ Sarah Hawkes Valente

The autonomy to have a consensual relationship with whoever we love is the ultimate measure of the freedom of a society. ~ Rod Dubey

I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about. I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying. Beginning was awful. ~ Alison Hawthorne Deming

But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time. ~ Helen Simonson

He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered. ~ S.J. Watson

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart. ~ Steve Carell

Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. ~ Mindy Kaling

You aren't worried are you?"
"Why should I be worried? It's just another day in the neighborhood. You know - bombs, fires, people shooting at you. Why should I be worried? Especially since we could be clothes shopping or boarding a plane. I'm not in the least worried."
"Hmmm," he mused allowed. "I read about this in the relationship manual. It's called womanly sarcasm and usually means a man is in deep trouble. ~ Christine Feehan