Marriage Quotes

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Your place is with me,” Jem said. “It always will be.”“What do you mean?”He flushed, the color dark against his pale skin. “I mean,” he said, “Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”Tessa sat bolt upright. “Jem!”They stared at each other for a moment. At last he said, trying for lightness, though his voice cracked, “That was not a no, I suppose, thoughneither was it a yes.”“You can’t mean it.”“I do mean it.”“You can’t—I’m not a Shadowhunter. They’ll expel you from the Clave—”He took a step closer to her, his eyes eager. “You may not be precisely a Shadowhunter. But you are not a mundane either, nor provably aDownworlder. Your situation is unique, so I do not know what the Clave will do. But they cannot forbid something that is not forbidden by the Law.They will have to take your—our—individual case into consideration, and that could take months. In the meantime they cannot prevent ourengagement.”“You are serious.” Her mouth was dry. “Jem, such a kindness on your part is indeed incredible. It does you credit. But I cannot let you sacrificeyourself in that way for me.”“Sacrifice? Tessa, I love you. I want to marry you.

~ Cassandra Clare

It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

~ Gillian Flynn

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

~ Edith Wharton

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

~ Jane Austen

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

~ Woody Allen

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

~ George Eliot

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

~ Arthur Golden

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

~ Graham Greene

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—“Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from all those imagined and now impossible futures all pressing in on you at once. It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.

~ Sharon Shinn

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one, it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.

~ Christian Cantrell

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

~ Virginia Woolf

Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.

~ Blanche Ebbutt

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

~ William Shakespeare

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

~ Vita Sackville-West

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.

~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world, it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

~ Shannon L. Alder

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands, I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.

~ D.h. Lawrence

There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most.Frowning, the man fumbled open his liturgy. There's an established rite, Your Grace. Marriage must be entered into with solemnity and consideration. I don't know that I can rush--Ten minutes. One thousand guineas.The liturgy snapped closed. Then again, what do a few extra minutes signify to an eternal God? He beckoned Amelia with a fluttering, papery hand. Make haste, child. You're about to be married.

~ Tessa Dare

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

When you fall in love, two people are mad for each other, When these two people get married, others say that they are made for each other, After marriage, the same two people are mad at each other.

~ Santosh Avvannavar

The first to apologize is the bravest.The first to forgive is the strongest.The first to forget is the happiest.

~ #Name?

But how did you know that it was Stacy?”“There wasn’t a green light flashing, that’s for sure,” he said. “Mostly, I felt I’d met a person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. That I didn’t need to look any further.””“But how can you be sure?” I persisted.“You can’t. There’s not just one person in the world who’s your type. There’s a whole group with the same likes and dislikes. But you want to spend your whole life looking for all of them? You just feel that everything’s right. You’re at peace with yourself.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I think of marriage differently. A Companionship of like minds. A tie that binds, yes, but in the binding comes strength. A lifetime with your dearest friend as your truest and best companion. That is what it can be. I believe that.

~ Julianne Donaldson

Successful long term relationships are all about power levels. A high power level male will attract and succeed with a high level power female.How do we define those power levels? We can’t, they are inherently in us, and invisible to scientists, accountants, psychologists and spiritualists alike. None can explain the Universe in its entirety, and it is more than chemistry, biology, physics, genetics, horoscopes, religion, in-laws, fame, psychology and spirituality.We may be infatuated by a person, but as soon as we hold their hands, kiss their lips, and especially, make love or have sex with them, their power levels will be instantly exposed.

~ Robert Black

The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.

~ M. Scott Peck

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.

~ Anne Brontë

If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.

~ Aya Ling

A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which robs either one member or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that, even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky!

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a safe house in a world of danger; the ultimate haven of two solitary, fearful souls. When you were single, this was what everyone who was already married was always telling you. Daniel himself had said it to his unmarried friends. It was, however, a lie. Sex had everything to do with violence, that was true, and marriage was at once a container for the madness between men and women and a fragile hedge against it, as religion was to death, and the laws of physics to the immense quantity of utter emptiness of which the universe was made. But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave.

~ Michael Chabon

I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.

~ Gary Chapman