Long Term Relationships Quotes

“Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, The Front Runner

“Successful long term relationships are all about power levels.

A high power level male will attract and succeed with a high level power female.
How do we define those power levels? We can’t, they are inherently in us, and invisible to scientists, accountants, psychologists and spiritualists alike. None can explain the Universe in its entirety, and it is more than chemistry, biology, physics, genetics, horoscopes, religion, in-laws, fame, psychology and spirituality.

We may be infatuated by a person, but as soon as we hold their hands, kiss their lips, and especially, make love or have sex with them, their power levels will be instantly exposed.”
― Robert Black

“I know
He is the only one
For I feel surrounded
By a thousand golden fairies
In the dark


He is the only one
For he touched my soul
With his words
Before my body with fingers
For he kissed my heart
Before planting a kiss on my lips”
― Jyoti Patel, The Curved Rainbow

“When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become mutual authorities of the collective life that they build together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“When you come to live with a woman, you will soon cease to see anything of what made you love; though it is true that the two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 3: Sodom and Gomorrah & The Captive

“Isn’t that why we commit to another? It’s not for sex. If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. We’d just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the more I think about it, the more I think long-term relationships are for getting to know someone.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“I had begun to realise how much I'd adapted to Keith's needs and preferences. Just small stuff: what time we went to bed, which side I slept on, not cooking cauliflower. Allowances and adaptions anyone in a long-term relationship has to make, accumulating over time. But I wasn't in a relationship anymore. I wanted to know what of myself needed to be reclaimed.”
― Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Forward

“It's ridiculously easy to fall in love, what's hard is to sustain that love for life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“We're expected to love too much and too long. He mustn't be like this, he thinks, he mustn't let this dark thing take him: this ever-hungry, very close big cloud of not caring anymore, and of not wanting. This is the enemy that must be fought until the end.”
― Cynan Jones, The Long Dry

“A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“...their relationship was a point of near-constant discussion in Night Vale, all of their imperfections and faults, which made them individuals worth loving. They had built those faults into the usual messy, comfortable, patched-up, beautiful structure that any functioning long-term relationship ended up being.”
― Joseph Fink

“It's ridiculously easy to fall in love, even the animals can do that - what's hard is to sustain that love for life, which most animals can't do, but the humans can.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The price of a successful relationship is devotion. Devotion is, essentially, commitment to something we value. We are devoted to the wellbeing of another person and the wellbeing of the relationship. We honour the value of the other person and we honour the worth of the relationship.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“Love is not about finding "the one", it's about being able to rediscover yourself through another person.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.”
― Carrie Brownstein

“Love with your eyes, and it'll fade in a year,
Love with your horns, it'll fade even sooner.
Fall in love with the being beyond the body,
And you'll have your messy but sweet everafter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“How does anyone think long-term around here?'

'Not everyone is in a quadrant where death is less of a chance and more of a foregone conclusion.' I breathe in the scent of the Archives and try to absorb a little of the peace it brings.

'So you're saying that some people still try to make cute little things like plans.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Sagacity did not magically arrive with age. As his family grew, so did his affections. The deeper he loved, the more easily he was injured. His heart had not become reinforced. It had softened--and ripened. It was a larger target and far more easily rent.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Never give up on love. It is easier to give up in search of a better prize, because the brain always keeps craving for new stimulants, but this way you only keep on searching, never to find peace in love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

“Facts in Prose
When someone we love no longer desires us.
We become emotionally damaged.
Were consumed with torment every day.
Within long-term relationships the lack of desire is commonplace.
Women lose desire for their partner sooner than men.
When your partner avoids or rejects kissing, their love has passed.
Collect your pieces and move on.
Gandolfo – 1987”
― R.J. Intindola

“Love is not all hearts, butterflies in the stomach and smiling couple selfies. Love is not just a fantasy land, I believe that couples in a long-term relationship would one day surely hit the unromantic milestone and that’s when, little things starts to matter more than ever before.

- From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“Ending a long term relationship is extremely tough and recovering from the issues you’ve had in the relationship is even tougher and takes time.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“Together, we write verses of hope and dreams in the book of our forever.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements