32 Best Quotes about Relationship Problems

Perfect relationships don’t exist and love is more like a roller coaster with ups and downs than a still lake. If you’re going through challenging times in your relationship, if you are often struggling with your partner and don't know anymore how to overcome these challenges, you may find hope and courage in these beautiful and inspiring phrases from famous authors. They will help you reflect on and manage your love and relationship better.

What have famous writers, artists and philosophers said about relationship problems and the way to overcome them? What are the deep sayings about the difficulties of being in a long-term relationship with someone you love?

We have made a list of the 32 best sayings and most inspirational quotes about relationship problems, arguments, struggles and challenges to overcome:

Quotes about difficulties of love

Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

Nicholas Sparks

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

Tracy McMillan

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

Gustave Flaubert

I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.

Woody Allen

Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Hugh Mackay

Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.

Dominic Riccitello

Quotes on pain and suffering in love

A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.

Jang In-hawn

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

Robert Brault

The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.

Betsy Kenton

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Cyril Connolly

When you get hurt in love, there are very few things that can help you get over the pain.

Melba Sean

I suffered two serious accidents in my life: one in which a bus knocked me to the ground, the other is Diego. Diego was the worst of all.

Frida Kahlo

Quotes about struggles and challenges in relationship

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind an empty hollow husk of what once was.

Mark W. Boyer

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions. That we'll screw up royally sometimes.

Arianna Huffington

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

We can learn to use the pain in our relationships to transform us thereby turning them into entities which heal not harm.

Donna Goddard

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

Dinah Shore

Behind every happy couple lies two people who have fought hard to overcome all obstacles and interferences to be that way. Why? Because it's what they wanted.

Kim George

To love someone or not to love them anymore

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Richard Bach

Where you can't love, don't linger.

Frida Kahlo

When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.

Bryan McGill

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

Problems in relationships occur because each person is focusing on what is missing in the other person.

Wayne Dyer

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Socrates

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Newton

Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Joan Bauer

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Unknown

This quote was wrongly attributed to Shakespeare but is not from him... However, it is still a very interesting phrase with a deep meaning!

Quotes about Overcoming relationship problems

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Barbara Johnson

A relationship is like a house. When a light bulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb.

Bernajoy Vaal

Great couples still get angry with each other, but they continue to discuss until there is a solution even if it takes several days.

Bob Grant

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Paulo Coelho

Whatever problems arise in a romantic relationship, it's important to face them together as a couple. If an aspect of the relationship stops working, don't simply ignore it, but instead address it with your partner. Things change, so respond to them together as they do.

Anne Nwakama

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus