Marriage
Quotes - The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional
“What
greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined
for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all
sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in
silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
―
George Eliot, Adam Bede
“you
can take this mouth
this
wound you want
but
you can't kiss
and
make it
better.”
―
Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn
“Blood
of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within
ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine,
always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye
go.”
―
Diana Gabaldon , Dragonfly in Amber
“I
love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re
stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with
you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love
you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did
you have a disease or something?”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“So
I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children
it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave
in a totalitarian state.”
―
sylvia plath, The Bell Jar
“I
love you more than I hate everything else.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Landline
“A
great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an
imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
― Dave
Meurer
“We
ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”
―
Kate Chisman, Run
“I
had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and
empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and
commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved
you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that
amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and
vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of
intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as
the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for
convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can
see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that
they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never
expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never
thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was
enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I
noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you
with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the
lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most
husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.”
―
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“Each
suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for
groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her
children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-
she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
―
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
“I'm
not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a
woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
“The
only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this:
love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to
love.”
―
Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
“The
problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it
must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
―
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
“When
you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with
your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you
can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think,
makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better,
just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life
with her. (Carter Maguire)”
―
Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
“There
is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a
wife who can't cook and will.”
―
Robert Frost
“I
wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he
could be wicked and wouldn't.”
―
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
“Love
is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of
spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult
choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your
greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience,
and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the
quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.”
―
Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
