The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential…

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

— Toni Morrison

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

— Barry Levinson

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that…

— Shoshana Zuboff

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can…

— Adrienne Rich

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each…

— Francis Schaeffer

Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so…

— Iris Origo

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

— Gore Vidal

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

— Tillie Olsen

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…

— Willa Cather

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

— Neale Donald Walsch

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and…

— Ayn Rand

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

— Sigmund Freud

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward…

— Warren Farrell

I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that…

— Albert Einstein