Human Relationships Quotes

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Let us express our confidence lavishly. In the construction of human relationships, trust can unlock bolted hearts and evaporate groundless suspicions. It has the power to uplift us and detach us from material calculations. Except, if reliance shows nasty shatters, we may put it on hold for a while or, furthermore, deny it. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We find it more and more difficult to achieve a sense of continuity, permanence, or connection with the world around us. Relationships with others are notably fragile; goods are made to be used up and discarded; reality is experienced as an unstable environment of flickering images. Everything conspires to encourage escapist solutions to the psychological problems of dependence, separation, and individuation, and to discourage the moral realism that makes it possible for human beings to come to terms with existential constraints on their power and freedom.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Dogs can enhance the importance of a "Second Other" in shaping our self-identity, creating a nonverbal, unconditional bond that contrasts with the intricacies and conflicts inherent in human relationships. ("I am young and have no dog")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Rafael?”
”Yeah?”
„Do we all have monsters?”
„Yes.”
„Why does God give us so many monsters?”
„You want to know my theory?”
„Sure.”
„I think it’s other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesn’t have anything to do with it.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“My theory is - we don't really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and quickly as if anybody's there.”
― Martin Amis, Money

“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
― Graham Greene

“Those who are nurtured best, survive best.”
― Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing Social Brain

“Compassionate leaders honor the complexity of human relationships, nurture authenticity and create common grounds for blooming great ideas of individuals.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.”
― Laurence J. Peter

“Cause and effect are never divided between two people.”
― Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller

“Understanding RELATIONSHIPS –
If I have something to share, however, I didn’t share it with you because you didn’t ask me. It means I DON’T TRUST YOU.
Even if you didn’t ask me, I still shared it with you, giving my trust to you. However, you shared it with the entire world. It means YOU ARE UNTRUSTWORTHY.
I know what you know, however, when I asked you, you lied to me. It means YOU ARE DISHONEST.
LOVE and AFFECTION are two essential elements of HUMAN RELATIONSHIP. However, whether you deserve my LOVE and AFFECTION or not is based on your TRUSTWORTHINESS and HONESTY.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Ce qui m’a le plus étonné (absurdement, bien sûr) à Paris, c’est de n’avoir aperçu aucun carrosse avec un malade à l’intérieur. J’ai découvert un jour au coin d’une rue un invalide dans un chariot mécanique et j’ai voulu lui foncer dedans, l’embrasser et le serrer dans mes bras comme si ç’avait été un frère. Mais tu ne sais que trop bien que, dans la vie, précisément les gestes les plus sensés sont interdits.”
― Max Blecher, Scarred Hearts

“And then I realized there was no other option except to approach this scene with an optimism that I might have lacked but knew I could fake.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“Watching him steadily, Laura had a wordless perception that in human affairs in an absolute sense there can never be any victors, there is no such thing as self-interest, and no way of being right.”
― Elizabeth Harrower, The Watch Tower

“One should always keep a balance when they are measuring and comparing things and as for people, we can’t measure them.”
― Khuzema Ahmed, I Saw The Devil

“People always understand things but when they do it’s quite late.”
― Khuzema Ahmed, I Saw The Devil

“If a man gets his hands red with the blood of the innocent and he is conscious of this fact; he either spends the rest of his life in utter damnation and guilt or he commits further wreck still. He is a threat to the society as it stands. If such a person works hard, catches upon opportunity, is cunning, and has luck by his side he would turn the tables on the people. He sells massacre at the market, and
he hangs and rips people apart in squares. To be born rich and powerful becomes a tragedy and for the first time, poverty is
beautiful and desired. You won’t find poor,
hardworking, grinding workers broken easily, they are resilient, but the rich and elite, become agitated at the first instance of discomfort. The man who took innocent lives to better his position becomes the devil that haunts the elite and the few days they do get to spend are equal to a whole life full of the misery of the slaves they made of others.”
― Khuzema Ahmed, I Saw The Devil

“Even a thousand acts of kindness can be undone by a single unintentional harm, revealing the fragility of trust in human relationships, and the harsh truth stares into one's eyes that humans are often so self-centered and selfish that reliability and reciprocity seems an illusion in this world.”
― Renuka Goria

“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The truth is often a double-edged sword, severing bonds with its sharpness. Yet, only through the pain of its cut can we understand the depth of our human relationships.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“((طلاق)) یک اتفاق سخت و ناراحت کننده است. اگر سعی کنید آن را طوری جلوه دهید که گویی مشکل کوچکی است یا تاثیر عاطفی چندانی ندارد، در واقع ارزش زندگی خانوادگی خود را که تا آن روز با هم داشته اید زیر سوال می برید. همچنین این کار توهینی است به توانایی و شهامت کودک تان در ((درک)) اهمیت این اتفاق.”
― Meg F. Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce

“همدردی فقط درک عقلانی یک احساس نیست؛ بلکه درک عاطفی آن هم هست.”
― Meg F. Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce

“در بسته صداها را خفه می کند ولی احساسات را نه.”
― Meg F. Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce

“طلاق یک اتفاق سخت و ناراحت کننده است. اگر سعی کنید آن را طوری جلوه دهید که گویی مشکل کوچکی است یا تاثیر عاطفی چندانی ندارد، در واقع ارزش زندگی خانوادگی خود را که تا آن روز با هم داشته اید زیر سوال می برید. همچنین این کار توهینی است به توانایی و شهامت کودک تان در ((درک)) اهمیت این اتفاق.”
― Meg F. Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce

“وسعت عشق پدر و مادر در نظر یک بچه غیر قابل اندازه گیری است. ولی این مسئله معنایش این نیست که شما نباید سعی کنید عشقتان را برایش توضیح دهید.”
― Meg F. Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce

“پذیرش شرایط یا وظایف جدید لزوما معنایش این نیست که تو همیشه این شرایط را دوست داری یا می خواهی همیشه آن وظایف را انجام دهی.”
― Meg F. Schneider, Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce