Marriage Miserable Quotes

#1. It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Ben Elliot

#2. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. You can't trust anybody with power.

Newt Gingrich

#4. Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

Doris Lessing

#5. We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Deborah Heiligman

#6. I believe fiction writers are the most honest of liars. They expose their innermost thoughts through deception.

Nicholas Adams

#7. Hang there like fruit, my soul,
Till the tree die.

William Shakespeare

#8. Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Marvin Gaye

#9. I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Salma Hayek

#10. Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Edith Wharton

#11. The best thing about a heartbreak, you start looking for happiness elsewhere. You realize like wild flowers, happiness can grow anywhere and everywhere. And, most importantly within you.
Be wild, dear heart, happiness awaits you.

Saru Singhal

#12. I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.

Brooke Hayward

#13. This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical.

Roald Dahl

#14. I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

Kinky Friedman

#15. I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Kinky Friedman

#16. We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten.

Debbie Ford

#17. The moment we came into covenant relationship with God, His goodness was permanently pointed in our direction. God's favor is toward us, not away from us.

Kynan Bridges

#18. You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#19. I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.

Peter King

#20. People who always want to be happy and pursue it above all else are some of the most miserable people in the world.

Henry Cloud

#21. When that bastard calls back, you tell him he's won this round. I'll marry him. But I don't take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#22. Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.

Adam Ross

#23. In that regard we are different from our ancestors of a few centuries ago, who approved, carried out, and even savored the infliction of unspeakable agony on other living beings. What were these people feeling? And why don't we feel it today?

Steven Pinker

#24. Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

Nujood Ali

#25. A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Samuel Johnson

#26. Society is built upon trust.

Robert South

#27. The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

Gerald Jonas