Top 100 Marriage Death Quotes
#1. New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
Wendell Pierce
#2. At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.
Leonard Gardner
#3. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#4. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.
Euripides
#5. During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
Arnold Bennett
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.
Nadia Hashimi
#10. [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
Charlotte Bronte
#11. Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
Rick Perry
#12. She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.
E. M. Forster
#13. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
E. M. Forster
#14. My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
James Hillman
#15. Do we really mean it when we say 'in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, 'unless you shame me or disappoint me?' What is the cost of unconditional love and how capable are we of giving that?
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#16. Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
Rufus Wainwright
#17. It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
#18. I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said.
Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse."
"I am you Prince and you cannot refuse."
"I am your loyal servant and I just did."
"Refusal means death."
"Kill me then.
William Goldman
#19. A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.
Karen Kingsbury
#20. Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.
Norm MacDonald
#21. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.
Alison Bruce
#22. Finding a cat
or having a cat find you
can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
Kinky Friedman
#23. At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna
Loved her for the last time and left ...
That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt
So dead that he asked, What is wrong,
Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said,
Not not at all, but thought, What is
It to the corpse if the maggots nip?
Kamala Suraiyya Das
#24. The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.
John Steinbeck
#25. When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.
Milan Kundera
#26. He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.
Diane Setterfield
#29. And her soul died in her for fear: she knew she had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met nor whom they fought.
D.H. Lawrence
#30. It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)
Michael Zadoorian
#31. I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
Suzanne Finnamore
#32. Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.
Wayne Mack
#33. He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking about in the marriage service: for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.
Upton Sinclair
#34. But she left him. That night the angels came back for her, like she'd asked them to. And nobody who saw the heartbreak on Grandpa's face when Granny breathed her last would have thought for one minute that he was glad to get shet of her ...
Olive Ann Burns
#35. Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. I was trying to look at the positive in a very dreary situation. After all, the woman you have to marry nearly killed you thrice!"
"Ah, yes. Thank you for the reminder. I shall be sure to shout "'til death do us part" quite proudly, knowing it will be quite soon in seeking me out.
Rachel Van Dyken
#37. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.
Dennis Prager
#38. Marriage was like death. You knew it'd happen eventually, but it wasn't something you dwelt on.
T. Kingfisher
#39. It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.
Peter S. Beagle
#40. Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#42. I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.
Sharyn McCrumb
#43. The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
Shakira
#44. Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
Jennifer Dunn
#45. Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.
Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
#46. I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.
Anthony Liccione
#47. Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.
Gerald Massey
#48. Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
Franz Kafka
#50. I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
Debra Messing
#52. Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.
Anthony Liccione
#53. Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.
Kirk Cameron
#54. To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#55. It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#56. Death which is the mother of the universe! - Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky - no revolution might destroy that maidenhood
Allen Ginsberg
#57. She never confronted the death of anything, be it a habit, a phase, or a marriage, even when the end stood right in front of her, plain and inevitable.
Elif Shafak
#58. And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.
Augusten Burroughs
#59. He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.
Marguerite Young
#60. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.
Greg Iles
#61. Might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.
Philippa Gregory
#62. Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
G.K. Chesterton
#63. but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
Ben Aaronovitch
#64. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.
W. Somerset Maugham
#65. 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
#66. Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?
J.D. Robb
#67. I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
Elizabeth I
#68. Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!
Sadegh Hedayat
#69. All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
Robert Byron
#71. When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
Mark Udall
#72. Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
Pat Conroy
#73. You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
Mark Twain
#75. People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
Alveda King
#76. He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life.
Marilynne Robinson
#77. One last "happy" thought: Your marriage will end either in death or divorce. (Think about it!) So well before the "I do's" (and the eventual tears), why not give both of yourselves a chance for a marriage that can be the best it can be?
J. Thomas Steele
#78. Success in relationships takes death to the flesh. Singles stop begging for what you won't die for and couples start dying so your marriage can live.
Hope D. Blackwell
#79. Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch
the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.
John Wilmot
#80. Ellie, would you frolic in the land of forever with me?
Rae Hachton
#82. The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
Austin O'Malley
#83. Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.
Kay Goodstadt
#84. I will not just love you till death.I will love you for eternity,this life and the next.
Duha Zanjabil
#85. I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.
Joan Didion
#86. (On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
#87. When I said yes,
it implies till death,
and forever thence.
When I said love,
it connotes trust,
allied in situations tough.
And today,
when I hold your hand,
I am prepared to stand,
any trouble,
any avalanche.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#88. I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
Shakira
#89. As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.
Molly Elliot Seawell
#90. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.
Kirk Cameron
#92. Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on - otherwise he is useless. "For most men that purpose revolves around marriage and children
David Gemmell
#93. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
Anais Nin
#94. There are two covenants that cease to exist in the Master's Kingdom - death and marriage."
"What an appropriate pairing," I muse.
"He thought so.
Addison Moore
#96. Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#97. Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
Eda LeShan
#98. Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.
Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother
Lena Dunham
#99. They seemed so united that I loved them as one person. Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.
Robert E.Lee
#100. His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle.
Ally Blake
