Dysfunctional Relationship Quotes

#1. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Bell Hooks

#2. You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.

Henry Cloud

#3. I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#4. Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

David W. Earle

#5. Live and learn not to take things so personal.

Toni Wallace

#6. Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

Peter R. Orszag

#7. The shame-based person is nearly always enmeshed in some way with one or more people. While we are in a dysfunctional, shame-based relationship, we may f eel like we are losing our mind, going crazy. When we try to test reality, we are unable to trust our senses, our feelings and our reactions.

Charles L. Whitfield

#8. The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.

Bill Jensen

#10. Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.

Graeme Souness

#11. Be just before you are generous.

James Joyce

#12. And the more I started to think of our relationship as a success and less as a dysfunctional fuck-fest, I was basically like. Yeah, sometimes I do want to punch Tegan, but 99.9 times out of 100, I don't.

Sara Quin

#13. Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

J.M. Coetzee

#14. Britain's relationship with America might be described as 'special', but only if by 'special' we mean 'frequently dysfunctional'.

Ben Crystal

#15. Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

David W. Earle

#16. Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.

John Bush

#17. It was a relationship born out of loneliness between two people who couldn't be more different. We took from each other what we needed. We left nothing behind for anyone else. He drank me dry. I ate him whole. We were dysfunctional. We were dangerous to each other.

A Meredith Walters

#18. I know you deserve better than me. You think I don't know that? But if there was any woman made for me ... it's you.

Jamie McGuire

#19. You're not flying the sanity kite very high either..so lets be crazy together

Meg Collett

#20. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him

Rupi Kaur

#21. Love is exactly the word I'd use...It's the only thing that comes close to describing this hell with you.

Meg Collett

#22. Damn, I can't wait until it get dark,
So I can light these fireworks up at the park,
And celebrate my independence,
It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.

Kam

#23. They don't teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

Gwenn Wright

#24. Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.

B.J. Neblett

#25. My relationship is so dysfunctional, last night I had revenge sex and make-up porn.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#26. There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

Sam Keen