Bad Marriage Experience Quotes

#1. Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer for poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?

Elin Hilderbrand

#2. Maybe you are beginning to sense that if your experience of sin is not all that bitter, and your experience of marriage not all that sweet, maybe your theology is not all that it should be.

Dave Harvey

#3. A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience

Samuel Johnson

#4. Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#5. Unless you're able to look at marriage through the lens of Scripture instead of through your own fears or romanticism, through your particular experience, or through your culture's narrow perspectives, you won't be able to make intelligent decisions about your own marital future.

Timothy Keller

#6. I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

Hayley DiMarco

#7. In my experience, women underestimate the effect that their happiness has on the men in their lives.

Shawn T. Smith

#8. Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

Yoko Ono

#9. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Even those fortunate ones among us who get sex right don't necessarily feel compelled to talk about it. For all they know, everybody else is having the same experience. Sex being a naturally private act, we don't share experiences with others the way we would about an especially good steakhouse.

Michael Rittenhouse

#11. Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

Peter D. Kramer

#12. You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God ... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.

Troy Polamalu

#13. 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

#14. Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.

Jay Kopelman

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

Charlotte Bronte

#16. We are inspiration to one another

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

Sharad Pawar

#18. Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience?

Todd Stocker

#19. Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

Guillermo Del Toro

#20. I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.

Jill Soloway

#21. Before my marriage, I didn't think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

Grace Kelly

#22. Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary - and she herself - might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does.

Tracy Chevalier

#23. Exploration of her body will open the doors to pleasuring her in ways she has yet to experience.

Stephan Labossiere

#24. Now most young people spend their twenties and thirties in another stage of life, where they go to university, start a career, and experience being an adult outside of their parents' home before marriage.

Aziz Ansari

#25. For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

S.R. Ford

#26. Tis what marriage is all about, madam," he said. "Have you not realized it? 'Tis about discovering unknown facets of the character and experience and taste of one's spouse and learning to adjust one's life accordingly. 'Tis learning to hope that one's spouse is doing the same thing.

Mary Balogh

#27. Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.

Jean Chatzky

#28. Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, Kirkland said.

Mary Jo Putney

#29. If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. In life there is no formula for 'Marriage" every experience differ as well as every couples differ,so all we have to do is to invite God into our marriages because he is the 'KEY" TO OUR HAPPINESS.

Nthabiseng Motjamela

#31. A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson

#32. The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Larry Eskridge

#33. Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.

Ken Mehlman

#34. Of course I am," Wax said. "This is my second marriage. I'm an old hand at the practice by now." Wayne grinned. "Oh, is that how it works? 'Cuz in my experience, marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. The greatest secret of life is never give up. Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Jez Butterworth

#37. True marriage enabled the two partners to stand upright as properly formed human beings. Through the union, each partner acquired his missing leg. For anyone who had the experience of using two legs, life wasn't worth living if one had to manage on a single one.

Vincent Eri

#38. All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

Rob Portman

#39. Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.

Ravi Zacharias

#40. It is hard to get a good perspective on marriage. We all see it through the inevitably distorted lenses of our own experience.

Timothy Keller

#41. In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Ariel Gore

#42. Husband and wife, must complement each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. He'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

George R R Martin

#44. Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving in this lifetime, real love still lives.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#45. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Chris Fabry

#46. No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

Sophocles

#47. The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#48. Love and pride will never dwell together, never ! Do not fool yourself, God and the devil will never share the same space. Therefore, drop your pride and experience love.

Khuliso Mamathoni

#49. Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

Michael Holroyd

#50. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Jeff Miller

#51. I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them as we need them, to excuse our faults, to insulate ourselves from our own expendability or indispensability.

Anna Quindlen

#52. I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Utada Hikaru

#53. I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind."
He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.

Lisa Kleypas

#54. The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Danica McKellar

#55. Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.

Oscar Wilde

#56. I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

Joan Didion

#57. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

Ursula Parrott

#58. Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Jason Sudeikis

#59. If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

Nancy Mitford

#60. It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Kathy Valentine

#61. Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies?

Jessica Hawkins

#62. Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

Robert Breault

#63. The union of a dedicated Dom and a confident submissive is a harmonious marriage of souls. There is no other experience like it.

Red Phoenix

#64. God's purpose for marriage is for a husband and wife to experience a love relationship, where they passionately pursue each other daily, where the ups and downs draw them closer together, a place where true intimacy thrives.

Jennifer Smith

#65. And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn.

Philippa Gregory

#66. Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience.

Auliq Ice

#67. Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.

Bryan Cranston

#68. Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people ... .Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

Howard W. Hunter

#69. We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway.

Julieanne O'Connor

#70. The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

Jess C. Scott

#71. When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#72. When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.
Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#73. Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Patsy Kensit

#74. There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Delia Ephron

#75. The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem