Top 21 Quotes About Unhappy Marriages
#1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#3. The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.
Lorna Sage
#4. Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
Anne Roiphe
#5. As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
Helen Fisher
#6. Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#7. I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.
Paula Danziger
#8. The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects.
Daniel Kahneman
#9. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#11. Millions of marriages are unhappy; if everybody confessed the truth, perhaps all are more or less so.
Charlotte Bronte
#13. So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber
#14. Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.
Joan Rivers
#15. Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.
Terrence Real
#16. As a political movement, feminism seeks to transform society by challenging and changing social institutions. Religion, on the other hand, seeks first to transform individuals through a personal relationship with God, which then results in a desire to work for the transformation of society.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#17. He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!
Ray Bradbury
#18. Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.
Tom Turner
#19. Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
Anne Lamott
#20. Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom
Ezra Pound
