Anthony Kiedis Quotes

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Rich always wanted to be so close that it freaked me out. I always thought it was weak of him that he liked me so much, but then I realized that he was strong to put up with me and stay with me when I kept trying to push him away.

Lis and I didn't talk for a year. I was in a relationship that wasn't good for me. I became isolated. I had nobody anymore, I only had my relationship.

The guy who wants to spend all his time with you may seem romantic, but he's also the guy who'll try to stop you from doing anything that doesn't involve him. If he presses you to ditch hobbies, passions, and friends, it's time to ditch him.

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

When you're in a relationship with someone who's selfish, what keeps you in it is the fact that when they shine on you, it's this souped-up shine. And you feel like you're in the club. And you don't even know what club it is. You just know you want to stay in it.

I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.

He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

I can't live without you or with you.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.