Patti Smith Quotes

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

I like women but I want a meaningful relationship.

We love to work together. Especially when he stands behind me at the microphone and we hug.

Relationships have been a way of life and I don't regret being in one ever.

I really like being married. I love my husband.

I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.

As comfortable as I am being single, nothing beats sharing your happiness with someone you love.

There's a tremendous power and energy in sharing your life with another person.

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.