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.
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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