There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. — Alexander Theroux
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. — Joey Ramone
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
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. — Hemant Joshi
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient. — Harriet Martineau
Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. — Ruth Graham
Short Unhappy Marriage Quotes
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different — Spencer W. Kimball
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henny Youngman
[Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. — Ambrose Bierce
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois
Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage. — John R. Rice
Marriage isn't a carnival ride. — Aisha Tyler
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. — Antisthenes
Unhappy Marriage Image Quotes
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Husband Unhappy Marriage Quotes
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman
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
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him. — P. G. Wodehouse
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. — P. G. Wodehouse
Bad Marriage Quotes
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
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
Some people think I'm unhappy, but I'm not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking.
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
Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage. — Michael Hyatt
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy of all.
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
Failed Marriage Quotes
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
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
Stress and unhappiness come not from situations, but how you respond to situations.
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
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
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
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
Unhappy Life Quotes
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. — Abraham Maslow
I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little. — Jerry Garcia
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy. — Charlie Chaplin
Happy people build their inner world. Unhappy people blame their outer world.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. — Anthony De Mello
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill. — Matthieu Ricard
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back. — Cary Grant
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. — Red Skelton
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez
You don’t want to be the guy who succeeds in life while being high-strung, high-stress, and unhappy while leaving a trail of emotional wreckage for you and your loved ones. — Naval Ravikant
Marriage Is Hard Quotes
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. — Michele Weiner-Davis
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. — Groucho Marx
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. — Ossie Davis
Think that's what attracted me to painting so much. I could create any kind of world that I wanted. Nothing hurts here, no pain, nobody's unhappy, it's a pleasant place. Everything's nice here.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. — Iris Murdoch
I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved. — Andre Dubus
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories. — Timothy Keller
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him. — Helen Rowland
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley
Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good. — John Piper
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? — Dennis Miller
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
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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
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
Healthy Marriage Quotes
I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong. — Joycelyn Elders
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world. — William J Doherty
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. — James Dobson
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. — Meg Ryan
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly. — Imogen Stubbs
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. — Jennifer Crusie
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. — Ann Landers
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." — James Dobson
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. — Carson Daly
Marriage Separation Quotes
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets. — David Lammy
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole. — Dada Vaswani
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. — Rodney Dangerfield
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King
The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money. — Johnny Carson
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. — Sydney Smith
I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third. — Cloris Leachman
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. — Nick Cave
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. — George Burns
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz
Good Marriage Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem. — John M. Gottman
Happy Marriage Quotes
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. — Dalai Lama
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
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
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
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
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. — Keith Richards
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest. — Lord Byron
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest. — Anne Tyler
three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies. — Anne Roiphe
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West
Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction. — Scott Means
Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!' — Jane Smiley
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em! — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves! — Fulton J. Sheen
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. — Helen Fisher
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. — Hermann Graf Keyserling
So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first. — Lillian Russell
The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides. — B.K.S. Iyengar
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin. — Spencer W. Kimball
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy. — Irving Layton
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. — Judith Wright
I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single. — Paula Danziger
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us. — Anne Lamott
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?" — Keri Russell
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
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance. — Jane Swisshelm
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it. — Albert Camus
One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness. — Jo Coudert
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. — Rebecca West
More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children. — Merrill Markoe
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