Marriage Pain Quotes

#1. Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

Jill Savage

#2. You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Donovan

#3. You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

Rossana Condoleo

#4. The flinch is your real opponent, and information won't help you fight it. It's behind every unhappy marriage, every hidden vice, and every unfulfilled life. Behind the flinch is pain avoidance, and dealing with pain demands strength you may not think you have.

Julien Smith

#5. I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

#7. 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

#8. Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life ... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

Ashton Kutcher

#9. By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

Barbara Mandrell

#10. You asked if I loved her?
I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.

Ahmad Ardalan

#11. Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

Jennifer Egan

#12. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her.

Deborah Bedford

#14. I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

#15. In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.

Glenway Wescott

#16. Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.

Heather Day Gilbert

#17. People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.

Rob Delaney

#18. Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.

Auliq Ice

#19. That's the way marriage grows. It must grow through grief, it must grow through pain, and it must grow through anger.

Eliza Redgold

#20. Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

Tom Morrison

#21. 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

#22. Love makes reality invisible and no one around you can understand why you do the things you do, for something that can cause you so much pain. Because you know after all the fighting, tears, and uncertainty, it's all worth it.

Auliq Ice

#23. Make no mistake, what's yours is mine. I don't need a legal document to make me feel any safer in our marriage. If you decide to divorce me and rake me over the coals, I'm not sure any amount of money would ease the pain of losing you. It's a non-issue for me.

Meredith Wild

#24. Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.

Elona Washington

#25. Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

Shannon Hale

#26. Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

#27. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.

Anthony Liccione

#28. Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.

Samael Aun Weor

#29. I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.

Maureen McCormick

#30. The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.

Criss Jami

#31. In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty,

Kelli Russell Agodon

#33. Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. [ ... ] But love bears all things. [ ... ] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.

Joseph Campbell

#34. Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Gary Thomas