Bad Relationship Quotes

I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.

What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship," "When did it end?" "Slightly before it started.

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

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

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.

After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.

The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion!

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.