Quotes About Disappointment In Marriage

#1. The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#2. Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

Andrew Sullivan

#3. I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

Bella Pollen

#4. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly became less wild. To Manny's great disappointment, though, her domestic skills didn't rise to the fore as her sexual and artistic ones receded.

Meg Wolitzer

#6. Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

Jane Austen

#7. How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

Kate Atkinson

#8. Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Oscar Wilde

#9. I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

Ada Yonath

#10. We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.

Kate Chisman

#11. The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

Andy Stanley

#12. First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Maximilian Schell

#13. The United States started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill the enemies of our glorious republic to one designed to piss them off," Faith said, shooting a zombie five times, then walking up and shooting the still-thrashing infected in the head. "Seriously, just die, okay?

John Ringo

#14. I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.

William T. Vollmann

#15. Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

Rachel Abbott

#16. My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.

Hilary Mason

#17. A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.

Nora Roberts

#18. These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

Karl Marx

#19. (On getting married at 19)
We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

Crystal Woods

#20. Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

Margaret Atwood

#21. When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell

#22. When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

P.G. Wodehouse

#23. Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Richard Paul Evans

#25. From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

John Edward Williams