When Relationships Get Hard Quotes

#1. Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away.

Liz Reinhardt

#2. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Shauna Niequist

#3. A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.

Christophe Beck

#5. You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.

Taylor Swift

#6. I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Candice Bergen

#7. It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. If you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

Arman

#9. Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#10. Maybe relationships shouldn't be such hard work ...

Sarra Manning

#11. When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

Brendan Coyle

#12. That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

Patti LaBelle

#13. And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

Genevieve Gorder

#14. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.

Mensah Oteh

#15. No one really
knows anyone. That's the thing
about relationships - people are
always saying, "I want to know you,
I want to know who you are." But
it is so hard for anyone to even
know themselves. Who I am is
always changing, so how can anyone
else share in that?

Richard Linklater

#16. She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It's kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn't listening.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#17. Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

Kathy Baker

#18. It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.

Rosanna Arquette

#19. If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder ... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

Nicholas Sparks

#20. It's hard to make relationships work with others when you don't have a good relationship with yourself.

Joe Hill

#21. ...for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

Diane Vaughan

#22. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#23. People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

Sophie Monk

#24. More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#25. Relationships take time and effort; they're not always like the fairytale they start off as. Finding your soul mate isn't the hard part; staying together is.

Neha Yazmin

#26. I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.

Erykah Badu

#27. Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?

C.C. Hunter

#28. In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find.

Harlan Coben

#29. I have never been the fiddle-dee-dee, carefree Scarlett O'Hara his fantasies imagined. I'm more of the Civil War version - tired, hard, and determined.

Jennifer Harrison

#30. Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.

Tobias Wolff

#31. You're great but you're not there when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning. You don't make me a cup of tea after a hard day at work, or rub my back in the bath. I'm sick of being lonely. Is that so wrong?

Eleanor Prescott

#32. Money gives you options,
Hard work gives you success,
Healthy relationships give you a long life,
But faith gives you everything!

Farshad Asl