Relationship Fragility Quotes

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

When you fall in love, you become weak.

Is the relationships with your spouses of such fragility that the fact that I have a committed, loving relationship with another man jeopardizes them?

All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

If you're in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won't be forever.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.