Sayings About Marriage Separation

#1. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.

Edward Gibbon

#2. It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

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

Dennis E. Adonis

#5. I'm not going to deny that I enjoy a good four or five hour karaoke session. But who doesn't?

Ken Marino

#6. When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

Jack Welch

#7. Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.

Richard Russo

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

Rossana Condoleo

#9. One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards

Oche Otorkpa

#10. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it ... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

Tom McNeal

#13. You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being.

Rumi

#15. Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

John Le Carre

#16. If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Tony Campolo

#17. Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person.

Archie Lee

#18. Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.

D. Ivan Young

#19. I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.

Anne Hathaway

#20. This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting.

Rob Reiner

#21. Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Anne Tyler

#22. By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

Francis Bacon

#23. I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Matthew Bourne

#24. They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

Margaret Kennedy

#25. I don't make threats. Only promises.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. The real reason people oppose marriage equality is religious in nature. Marriage equality is therefore not only a civil rights issue, but also a separation-of-church-and-state issue.

David Silverman

#27. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#28. Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

Lauren Hutton

#29. A sitcom. I hate that word.

Angela Lansbury

#30. There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#31. If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Clay Aiken

#32. I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

Rachel Cusk

#33. The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

#34. We all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

Charles Dickens

#35. Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications.

Chloe Thurlow