79+ Best Toxic Relationship Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Relationship is the way in which two things are connected. Profoundly inspirational toxic relationship quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Toxic Relationship Quotes

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. Robin Williams

Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked. Asa Don Brown

No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. May Sarton

Don’t light yourself on fire trying to brighten someone else’s existence. Charlotte Eriksson

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. Phil McGraw

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a bell jar; starved for love. Ayushee Ghoshal

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term. Nicholas Sparks

Stop setting yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.

The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term. Nicholas Sparks

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. Robert Anthony

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself. Dionne Warwick

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere. Michael J Herbert

When he’s the last thing you need, he’ll drain you. He’ll exhaust you. He’ll destroy you. And you won’t see it that way. In fact, you won’t notice it at all. But everyone else will. Kirsten Corley

Love cannot live where there is no trust. Edith Hamilton

Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters. John Mark Green

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Ernest Hemingway

Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go. Dennisse Lisseth

A bad relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.

If you’re in a relationship and all you do is cry, you need to stop and ask yourself, are you dating a human or an onion? Karen Salmansohn

It is better for someone to break your heart once by leaving your life, than for them to stay in your life and break your heart continually. Terry Mark

A bad relationship is like standing on broken glass, if you stay you will keep hurting. If you walk away, you will hurt but eventually, you will heal. Autumn Kohler

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. Wayne Dyer

No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. May Sarton

The death of one relationship always starts with small arguments and then the suspicions.

We can deeply love our poison. We can love the taste of it, the scent of it, the comforting weight of it in our belly and find ourselves woken in the night with stabbing cramps, arms around porcelain toilet bowls, hurling every last bit until collapsing on bathroom tile, limp from dehydration. Sometimes parting with love is essential for survival. I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them. Maggie Young

Sometimes, we just fall in love with the wrong people.

Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer! Israelmore Ayivor

Just because someone desires you, does not mean that he values you. Julianne Cantarella

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us. Sharon Salzberg

Why do you think of him because he’s not thinking about you. Amy Nicholson

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

Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally, and sometimes, physically. Kemi Sogunle

May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you. Lalah Delia

Never date someone who makes pain a side effect of love.

Life is too short to hang around people who are causing you to compromise. Pulling you down. Your time is too valuable to waste it with people who don’t have a dream. People that aren’t going anywhere. You don’t need to make some big announcement, but little by little, you should spend less time with them. Joel Osteen

You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in their actions.

Dear Self Stop re opening your doors for toxic people, then calling it seeking closure. Certain things don’t work out in life  and that’s ok. Reyna Biddy

The moment you start to wonder that you deserve a better person in life. You actually do.

Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. Donna Lynn Hope

It’s better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. Oprah Winfrey

A broken heart bleeds tears. Steve Maraboli

When it comes to abuse, you believe there’s no way out. There is always help. There is always a way out. Rev. Donna Mulvey

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be. Rae Hachton

So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E. A. Bucchianeri

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things. Gift Gugu Mona

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant

When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again. Angel Moreira

We’ve all loved someone way too freaking much. Karen Salmonsohn

I burned my bridges so the devil couldn’t follow me. L.M. Browning

Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go. Daniell Koepke

If you’re in a relationship and all you do is cry, you need to stop and ask yourself, are you dating a human or an onion. Karen Salmansohn

Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself. Hussein Nishah

The only way to win with a toxic partner is not to play.

There must come a time when your love for yourself becomes more important than your need to hold onto the pain of your past. Karen Salmansohn

It hurts the most when the person that made you feel so special yesterday, makes you feel so unwanted the next.

I seem to be torn between I wish we’d met earlier and I wish we’d never met. Ahmed Mostafa

If you’re giving love and not receiving it, you’re not in the right relationship. If you’re receiving it and not giving it, then you are taking advantage of the other person. Patti Stanger

The wise do not consider the chains and shackles of jail to be the toughest restraints. The chains of attachment are the strongest of the ties that bind. Thich Nhat Hanh

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself. Dionne Warwick

Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man. Iris Murdoch

Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. Donna Lynn Hope

How you choose to feel today should not be dependent on others. Anthon St. Maarten

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. Oprah Winfrey

I know people can be awful dooms for each other. Iris Murdoch

Don’t light yourself on fire trying to brighten someone else’s existence. Charlotte Eriksson

Sometimes there are things in life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need. Don Bolena Jr.

You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. Stelle Atwater

We teach people how to treat us. Dr. Phil

A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Ernest Hemingway

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated. Steve Maraboli

It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces. Ella Harper