Richard Burton Quotes

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

Timing is everything with relationships.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

You can road-test relationships.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.