Marriage
Quotes - Happiness is only real when shared
“It
is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“So
it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work
at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you,
forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“It
is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
―
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“If
he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates
expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will
do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with
disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re
going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at
ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your
feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another
word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”
―
Greg Behrendt
“Let
there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance
between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a
moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink
not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same
loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life
can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the
pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in
each other's shadow.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“It’s
probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to
live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the
one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think
I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a
businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men
I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men
always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my
best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for
justice.”
―
Coco Chanel
“Happiness
[is] only real when shared”
―
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“The
trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely
and likely to stay lonely.”
―
Charlotte Brontë
“To
be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering
that can border on miraculous.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Never
marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are
curious: both are disappointed.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Marriage
can wait, education cannot.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“There
is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not
determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents.
Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those
ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your
family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate
those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate
will always be with you.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“I
don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier
than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse,
someone I can't be silent with.”
―
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Yes,
we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not
reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there
is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some
22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why
buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for
you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize
it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
―
Frank Kaiser
“You
know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or
sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a
pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else
sails along for the ride.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Mercy
“I
know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his
mother.”
―
Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
“I'm
about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a
load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is
the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but
in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't
care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
―
Greg Behrendt
