Two Separate Beings

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances,

 face to face in freedom and seeking 

justification of their existence through one another, 

will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." 

~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Tell Me

“Tell me whom you haunt 

and I’ll tell you who you are.”

~ Andre Breton

The Only Real Battle

“The only real battle in life 

is between hanging on and letting go.”

~ Shannon L. Alder

The Desire To Love Someone

“The desire to love someone always exceeds 

the desire to be loved by someone 

& that's exactly why we end up loving 

the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.”

~ Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls

To Find Out If She Really Loved Me

“To find out if she really loved me, 

I hooked her up to a lie detector. 

And just as I suspected, 

my machine was broken.

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo, 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

I Once Loved A Girl

“I once loved a girl who almost loved me, 

but not as much as she loved John Cusack.”

~ Chuck Klosterman, 

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Human Relationships

“Human relationships always help us to carry on 

because they always presuppose further developments, a future - 

and also because we live as if our only task 

was precisely to have relationships with other people.”

~ Albert Camus

There Are All Kinds Of Ways

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, 

even broken, some, irrevocably; 

it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.”

~ Katherine Owen, Not To Us

I Think

“I think of how each person in a marriage 

owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. 

That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

~ Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

A Woman

“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - 

first an acquaintance, 

next a mistress, 

and only then a friend.”

~ Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

Her Face Looked Ugly

“Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; 

it was an ugliness which bound him to her 

more than any beauty could have done. 

It isn't being happy together, 

he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, 

that makes one love -- it's being unhappy together.”

~ Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

A Tamed Woman

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

~ Robert M. Drake

People Are Islands

“People are islands,' she said. 

'They don't really touch. 

However close they are, they're really quite separate. 

Even if they've been married for fifty years.”

~ Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

The True Measure Of A Man

“The true measure of a man 

is how he treats you 

when others are not looking.”

~ Alessandra Torre

In This Story

“In this story 

I am the poet

You're the poetry.”

~ Arzum Uzun

Find A Woman

“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. 

She won't make life perfect 

but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. 

And then love her with all that's in you.”

~ Gayle G. Roper, Shadows on the Sand

People Will Walk In And Walk Out

“People will walk in and walk out of your life, 

but the one whose footstep made a long-lasting impression 

is the one you should never allow to walk out.”

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When You Say

“When you say "I" and "my" too much, 

you lose the capacity to understand 

the "we" and "our".”

~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

It Can Be Difficult

“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, 

when our inner wisdom tells us it's time to let go. 

At this point, we can choose to let go 

and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar 

to make way for a new chapter in our life. 

Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain 

that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, 

like an emotional cancer. 

Until we wake up, one day and realize, 

we are buried so deep in the dysfunction 

of the relationship that we scarcely remember 

who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”

~ Jaeda DeWalt

I Used To Think

“I used to think I knew everything. 

I was a "smart person" who "got things done," 

and because of that, the higher I climbed, 

the more I could look down and scoff 

at what seemed silly or simple, even religion. 

But I realized something as I drove home that night: 

that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. 

And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything 

because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. 

So many people are in pain-no matter 

how smart or accomplished-they cry, 

they yearn, they hurt. 

But instead of looking down on things, they look up, 

which is where I should have been looking, too. 

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, 

we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”

~ Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story