Quotes About Failure Of Marriage

#1. You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.

H. Kirk Rainer

#2. ...this was what she had been taught: To choose marriage and babies over a glamorous career would be an unthinkable failure. Love was supposed to be the by-product of a life well lived not the goal. And this is what she realized: Everything she had been taught was wrong.

Jade Chang

#3. A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

Billy Graham

#4. If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

Jeanette Coron

#5. Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.

Gary Chapman

#6. Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.

John Edward Williams

#7. If you do nothing but urge people to "look out for number one," you will be setting them up for future failure in any relationship, especially marriage.

Timothy Keller

#8. The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.

Samael Aun Weor

#9. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

Merle Shain

#10. Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land.
The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure.
Randy
from Spring Cleaning
Coming Summer 2012

Brandi Salazar

#12. Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Thomas Haden Church

#13. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.

Ian McEwan

#14. Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.

Ada Calhoun

#15. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel

#16. Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.

Dan Pearce

#17. But it is the marriage relationship in which the changing pattern is shown up most clearly because it is the deepest one and the most arduous to maintain; and because, somehow, we mistakenly feel that failure to maintain its exact original pattern is tragedy.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Auliq Ice

#19. She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. Mercy sweetens marriage. Where it is absent, two people flog one another over everything from failure to fix the faucet to phone bills. But where it is present, marriage grows sweeter and more delightful, even in the face of challenges, setbacks, and the persistent effects of our remaining sin.

Dave Harvey

#21. The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Anna Quindlen

#22. Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Sarah McLachlan

#23. (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

#24. I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Mike Birbiglia

#25. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

Gary Chapman

#26. If you don't? Well, I'm no longer inclined to believe the marriage's failure will be your fault." "Why's that?" "Because you're in love with him." Patrick

Leta Blake

#27. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.

Paul David Tripp

#28. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Herbert Samuel

#29. If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Phil McGraw

#30. The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

Ethan Hawke