Relationship quotes can help you navigate these complex emotions and put into words how much a person means to you, whether you are dating someone new, looking for a sweet love message to celebrate a milestone anniversary, or searching for a way to tell a close friend, “I miss you.”

Throughout your life, relationships will come and go. There will be life-changing romances and meaningful friendships that last a lifetime. 

Of course, there will also be toxic situations, painful breakups, and grief after you fall out of touch with a friend. These relationships teach you more about yourself and about powerful, sometimes elusive, love.

These relationship quotes are words to turn back to when you meet a new flame or are looking for sage advice about love.

Strong Relationship Quotes

• “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allen Poe
• “Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.” — Gabriela Mistral
• “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 honour him for what he is.” — Hermann Hesse
• “Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.” — Lauryn Hill

Meaningful Relationship Quotes

• “Love is the absence of judgment.” — The 14th Dalai Lama
• “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

Long-Distance Relationship Quotes

• “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
• “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” — Henry Winkler
• “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” — Hugh Mackay
• “If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” — Bernard Byer
• “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell

New Relationship Quotes

• “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Jorge Luis Borges
• “In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.” — Taylor Swift
• “The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.” — Halle Berry
• “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou
• “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa

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Cute Relationship Quotes

• “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
• “I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.” — Humphrey Bogart
• “I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
• True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach

Funny Relationship Quotes

• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
• “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
• “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin
• “Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.” — Jerry Seinfeld
• “Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.” — Mae West

You’re guaranteed to relate to some of these beautiful relationship quotes for all kinds of couples and situations.

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