‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Love is a serious mental disease.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I don’t like people going behind my back.