Quotes About Infidelity In Marriage

#1. In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Miroslav Volf

#2. My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.

Suzanne Finnamore

#3. Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

Dennis E. Adonis

#4. God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

Suzanne Finnamore

#5. I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: Oh My God Oh My God.

Suzanne Finnamore

#6. The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity.

Roy Andries De Groot

#7. I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Suzanne Finnamore

#8. I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

Suzanne Finnamore

#9. Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

Ava Gardner

#10. Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

Suzanne Finnamore

#11. Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Suzanne Finnamore

#12. I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

Suzanne Finnamore

#13. Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.

Carole Matthews

#14. I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

Suzanne Finnamore

#15. A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.

Suzanne Finnamore

#16. Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.'
'Excuse me, but I absolutely cannot understand how after eating my fill here I could go past a bakery and steal a roll.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

Suzanne Finnamore

#18. If I know anything about women, I know they're not going to accept infidelity any way you serve it up. I don't care what they say. No one wants the one they love running around on 'em,

Jack Dancer

#19. It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through
a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Suzanne Finnamore

#21. Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

Kay Goodstadt

#22. Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.

Suzanne Finnamore

#23. Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

Suzanne Finnamore

#25. 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

#26. I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.

Suzanne Finnamore

#27. The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

Suzanne Finnamore

#28. The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

Dan Savage

#29. The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

Suzanne Finnamore

#30. Cheat, defeat, repeat.

Elda M. Lopez

#31. If you're single and not committed, then go for it. The world's your oyster. But, if you're happily married and want to remain happily married, then the only oyster should be the one sliding down your throat from your spouse.

Jack Dancer

#32. Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like
a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only
find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

Frank Pittman

#33. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#34. Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

Suzanne Finnamore

#35. This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.

Suzanne Finnamore

#36. This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.

Suzanne Finnamore

#37. I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

Suzanne Finnamore

#38. It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.

Jenny Offill

#39. Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

Frank Pittman

#40. I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

Suzanne Finnamore

#41. The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Bill Maher

#43. It's a very female thing, isn't it, to take one boys' night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?

Gillian Flynn

#44. Foster foresight to promote right

Elda M. Lopez

#45. I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.

Suzanne Finnamore

#46. Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.

Ariana Carruth

#47. It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Suzanne Finnamore

#48. The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Malachy McCourt

#49. They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Suzanne Finnamore

#50. 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

#51. (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

#52. It's the same with [my wife]
when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I'm not worried with the kind of relationship we've got. Most people, they don't leave room for mistakes in their relationship.

Wyclef Jean

#53. There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

#54. This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.

Suzanne Finnamore

#55. His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,

Leah Stewart

#56. Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

Suzanne Finnamore

#57. I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

Suzanne Finnamore

#58. He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

Suzanne Finnamore

#59. Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Suzanne Finnamore

#60. Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

Suzanne Finnamore