Quotes About Toxic Relationships

#1. Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

Eleanor Brown

#2. Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn't honoring your feelings, it's not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that's a red flag!

Doreen Virtue

#3. Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.

Asa Don Brown

#4. I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

Taylor Swift

#5. The most toxic relationships in life are defined by the way they make us feel about ourselves.

R.K. Lilley

#6. When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

Darren Johnson

#7. If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them

Karen Salmansohn

#10. When you get to be my age, you gain a heightened awareness of time . . . how limited it is, and you tend to move toward social interactions that are meaningful and away from negative, trivial people who are downright toxic.

Sarah Jo Smith

#11. I'm in love with my corporate girlfriend,
with the Cyclops heart

Phil Volatile

#12. I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

L.M. Browning

#13. Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.

Steve Maraboli

#14. A boy made of stardust and selfishness; a girl filled with fire and fury at the world. We are a tangle of emotional wreckage, two broken messes thrown together, trying to navigate something we can barely comprehend.

Julie Johnson

#15. My love is toxic and you're suicidal.

Ahmed Mostafa

#16. Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

Karen Salmansohn

#17. When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.

Crystal Woods

#18. You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

Joyce Rachelle

#19. Grayson Dunn is in my head. He's under my skin. He's invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don't even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I'm twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation.

Julie Johnson

#20. It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.

Vironika Tugaleva

#22. The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

Stefan Molyneux

#23. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.

Mandy Hale

#24. MISERABLE

Release the toxic and infectious-
Spreaders of misery,
Souls destroying souls-
And poisonous liars.

Awaken from the hallucinations-
And take back your heart.
Reclaim your self-esteem-
And leave the toxic be.

Giorge Leedy

#25. Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.

Rachel Higginson

#26. If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave

Karen Salmansohn

#27. I also realized by the way he actually cared that I could hurt him, really hurt him, if I wanted to. That's a power no one should ever realize. It's toxic.

Rebecca Timberlake

#28. [...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.

Liz Thebart

#29. The end for us came with a knock on my window.

Liz Thebart

#30. Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

John Lewis Lund

#31. I'm not angry anymore. I'm just really disappointed about who you turned out to be.

Karen Salmansohn

#32. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

Karen Salmansohn

#33. He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.

Crystal Woods

#34. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.

Avril Carruthers

#35. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Liz Thebart

#36. [S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

Lauren Oliver

#37. If you know what you believe and why you believe it, you'll avoid poisonous relationships, toxic jobs, fair-weather friends, and any number of ills that afflict people who haven't thought through their deepest concerns.

Ryan Holiday

#38. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.

Aspen Matis