A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- Woody Allen

"There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever."
- Rollo May

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
- Luigi Pirandello

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.
- Milan Kundera

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
- Albert Camus