It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
