I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. — Patrick Murray
I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it — Black Thought
Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. — Joey Ramone
Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. — Nicola Sturgeon
Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. — Larry Gelbart
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. — Pope John Paul II
Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage. — Michael Hyatt
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
Short Failed Marriage Quotes
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — G. K. Chesterton
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. — Aisha Tyler
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. — Nick Faldo
A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death. — Steve Aylett
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. — Jeremy Sisto
Marriage is not a joke. It is not like food that you can spit out when it is too hot to chew. —
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Failed Relationship Quotes
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. — James Hillman
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones. — Steve Martin
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. — Steve Martin
Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. — Shannon Alder
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts
Just because you took longer than others, doesn't mean you failed. Remember that.
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. — Judith Lewis Herman
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth — Theodor Reik
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes
Bad Marriage Quotes
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. — Ellen DeGeneres
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. — W. C. Fields
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. — Rob Portman
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? — Robert Downey, Jr.
She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one. — Daniel Defoe
The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody
Broken Marriage Quotes
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde
Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again. — Peter Kreeft
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. — Wallis Simpson
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. — Mort Sahl
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage. — Oscar Wilde
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me. — Michael C. Hall
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. — Ricky Skaggs
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. — Jennifer Weiner
The MASTER has failed more times than beginner has even TRIED.
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. — John Gray
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. — Sigmund Freud
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. — W. H. Auden
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all. — Richard Bach
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success. — Storm Jameson
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. — Colin Chapman
You only fail when you stop trying.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Harold Nicolson
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. — Denzel Washington
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. — Johann Sebastian Bach
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor. — William Galston
Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me. — James Beard
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three. — Bette Davis
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. — Mignon McLaughlin
For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it. — Lionel Shriver
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail. — Thomas Hardy
Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage. — Michael Horton
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. — Richard Armour
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else. — William Lyon Phelps
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. — Kirstie Alley
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine. — Adam Hamilton
In a difficult marriage, both of us have failed each other. Even though one may be the major problem,you also have failed often in the way you have responded to them, the way you have treated them, in the way you have handled your hurt and your pain. — Gary Chapman
I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. — Kenneth Tynan
Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never created to do that. — Mark Hall
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. — Maggie Gallagher
This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope. — E. P. Thompson
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. — Gabrielle
I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made. — Osho
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support. — Brene Brown
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed. — Margaret Mead
We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. — Henry Rollins
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income. — Hanna Rosin
[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at. — Gwen Stefani
I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on. — Sharon Stone
When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together. — Boris Kodjoe
Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt. — Allan Pease
Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action. — Grant Cardone
I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance. — Dorianne Laux
Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal". — Jeannette Walls
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait. — Alice Hoffman
I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990. — Kim Alexis
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail. — Kevin Bacon
Relationships are most likely to fail when we don't address problems or hold our partner accountable for unfair or irresponsible behavior ... the ability to clarify our values, beliefs, and life goals--and then to keep our behavior congruent with them--is at the heart of a solid marriage. — Harriet Lerner
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. — Terry Bradshaw
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love. — Hermann Graf Keyserling
I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. — Bethenny Frankel
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life. — Richard L. Evans
Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail. — Demi Moore
Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success. — Myles Munroe
You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. — Lisa Ling
Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals. — Phil McGraw
In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There is a reason for this: whenever two persons fall in love, both of them present what is beautiful in themselves to the other and hide the ugly. When you fall in love, whether you are a man or a woman, you show your most beautiful face to the other - but it is not your reality, it is not your totality. — Osho
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