Tilda Swinton Quotes

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

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.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

You always find women contribute to a relationship more than a man.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

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.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.