Co-Dependence Quotes

I would describe my relationship with my couch as symbiotic - others would describe it as dangerous.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani. But I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long international flights when we're trying to sleep on the plane - we're total strangers, but we're sleeping next to each other.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

I don't like to be alone. I like to have my family around me. They disturb me, of course, but that's OK.

There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

There's no such thing as an independent person.