Relationships and Family

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

We admit that when the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible we crucified it.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.

A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN IS NOT THE PLACE IN WHICH ONE WOULD CHOOSE TO QUARREL WITH A WIFE; EVERY HUMAN BEING IN SUCH PLACES IS A SPY.

Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, AT LAST SIGHT, AT EVER AND EVER SIGHT.

AGE DOES NOT PROTECT YOU FROM LOVE. BUT LOVE, TO SOME EXTENT, PROTECTS YOU FROM AGE.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

FAMILIES BREAK UP WHEN PEOPLE TAKE HINTS YOU DON’T INTEND AND MISS HINTS YOU DO INTEND.

FEW MISFORTUNES CAN BEFALL A BOY WHICH BRING WORSE CONSEQUENCES THAN TO HAVE A REALLY AFFECTIONATE MOTHER.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

IT IS A MELANCHOLY TRUTH THAT EVEN GREAT MEN HAVE THEIR POOR RELATIONS.