Relationships Are Exhausting Quotes

#1. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

Catherine Lacey

#2. The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#3. What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

Anne Rice

#4. Relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

Cassandra Clare

#6. My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing.

Emma Thompson

#7. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Adam S. McHugh

#8. He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

Laozi

#9. Sleeping with a man half your age can be exhausting, but if it's too much for him you can always find a younger man.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#10. There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like 'Welcome to the Dollhouse.' I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Terry Crews

#11. Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.

Jules Feiffer

#12. Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos.

Steve Toltz

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

Stefan Molyneux

#14. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Lauren Oliver

#15. If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

Michael Ealy

#16. I don't like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don't know why. They're kind of exhausting.

Abraham M. Alghanem