Bad Relationships Quotes

“There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Let's go to the Next Level

“You do not find love. It finds you.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way.”
― R. YS Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection

“You are not supposed to go out and find love. Love will find you when you are ready.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people "no darn good any way". People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn't hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.”
― Henry Cloud, Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't

“You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.”
― Gugu Mofokeng

“Sometimes dramatic people try to draw you into someone else's drama, and that never ends well. Interfering is like pulling on a dangerous dog's ears. Do it at your own peril.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, The Seven Deadly Friendships: How to Heal When Painful Relationships Eat Away at Your Joy

“Just say NO to complicated, dead-end, unhealthy, and toxic relationships.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“Members of the flock who demand accountability from sick leaders are quietly pushed out the back door. Mother-Judah had become that kind of leader—a compassionless narcissist. Never burden a narcissist, or you will be quickly discarded.
Lamentations, pg Intro”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family

“I may have lost my parents, but I think you lost more than that… you lost yourself”
― Sheena Hutchinson, Discovering April

“We had scar-tissue
romance and ours was
a relationship of saying
goodbye—every time
we fought, every time
we fucked, and every time
we called it quits, before
picking up our knives
again”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

“Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses.”
― Tarun Sharma

“Afterward, she would finally come to understand what it meant to be human, what it felt like when the wrong man loves a woman, how the touch of a hand on her back--placed at the exact spot where the shoulder blades end and before the spine begins--can feel like the way that wings beat in the darkest part of the night.”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism

“A ‘situationship’ is not a relationship. Excuses about limitations and obstacles are just a lack of courage and commitment. Those who truly want to be together, find a way to make it happen.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Adios

Her pretty picture
lying on the
ground was like
the toppling
of some
fascist
regime
And burning
the photograph,
was the
celebration”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

“It does seem that the more in tune you are with life, the more you live in the present day, the less emotional baggage you carry with you in your daily life, and the happier the relationship you had with whoever it was who died, the more easy, surprisingly, it is to feel sad – and then move on. But the more loss a relationship contained, and the more emotionally uncomfortable the bereaved person is with his own life anyway, the worse can be the effect of a death. [...] Since people tend to mourn bad relationships more than good ones, and because of the confused feelings of guilt involved, they may over-compensate to make up for their bad feelings.”
― Virginia Ironside, Youll Get Over It: The Rage Of Bereavement

“If you can hate what you loved, then you never really loved it!”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The group’s laughter echoed off the stained, plaster ceiling. I raised my beer, but before I clinked the bottles together, I challenged him. “You think you’re a man I won’t forget?”
“Ah’m nae any man ye’ve met before.”
“Praise be,” I smirked, “the others haven’t been worth spit.”
Then the whiskey came, and I was taken by the tawny light, forgetting to worry about my ‘crazy’. Until Angus’ efforts at gilding my heart, called my ‘alter’ to the fore.”
― Cheryl R Cowtan, Girl Desecrated: Vampires, Asylums and Highlanders 1984

“The cruel side of me likes creating situations where people get buried deeper and deeper. I find that really amusing--the fact that Lindsay [in Freaks and Geeks] starts out encouraging Nick to follow his dreams and then ends up feeling sorry for him and making out with him and then getting stuck with this nightmare boyfriend, well...that's real life to me.”
― Paul Feig

“Let death come for me," I told them.
Contempt filled their gaze; they labeled me crazy. They then saw me drink my poison from her lips and they envied my fate.”
― Wiss Auguste

“Every one has a relative that they are ashamed of.”
― Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster

“The day you allow him hit you , he begins taking you for granted.”
― gugu innocentia mofokeng

“Never stay in a bad relationship, hoping it will magically become great someday.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“You still love me,” I say. “You just can’t feel it right now. Sometimes that happens to me, and I just wait and it always comes back. I don’t break up with you. I just give it time.” He shakes his head again. He sighs. I wait.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me