Top 1200 Unhappy Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows debate. And I think that gay marriage is a huge step forward. But debate is throwing ideas about, and when it becomes sort of a weapon of character assassination, I think that's crazy. I think the situation in America is different from in England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been carried, and whether it will go through Parliament I don't know.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

I did a TV job, 'Aint Misbehavin, purely for the money. I was disappointed with myself and, inevitably, incredibly unhappy.

When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.

I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.

Timing is everything in wrestling and when I was with the WWE it just wasn't the right time. I was unhappy and I decided to look for opportunities elsewhere.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a 'gay marriage,' it's just 'a marriage.' It's not a 'black man' or 'white woman,' it's just 'a man' and 'a woman,' or 'a human' and 'a human.' I'd just like to get to that.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

What Mindy has in common with a lot of women in their mid-30s is that she's obsessed with marriage. It's the entire premise of the 'The Mindy Project'. The pilot is her wanting to get married and her ruining her ex-boyfriend's wedding. For someone who fetishizes marriage so much, we're like, "OK, let's give it to her and let's see if it's as good as she thinks it's going to be." That's been the fun of the beginning part of this season is showing her what the challenges are of being married.

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

In marriage you got to go through the same struggles as a relationship, that's if the relationship is real, because there's a lot of non-real relationships going on in the world right now. And I think that's just because of the day and age we're in, a lot of these relationships are taking place over text messages, it's not real substance. But when you got a real one, it's already like a marriage.

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been considered a contradiction in terms - a passionate marriage. Passion has always existed, but it took place somewhere else. Everything that we wanted from a traditional marriage - companionship, family, children, economic support, a best friend, a passionate lover, a trusted confidante, an intellectual equal - we are asking from one person what an entire village once provided. And couples are crumbling under the weight of so much expectation.

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.

She is fragile, she is soft, she is weaker, she is afraid. All around is a man-created world, and she is a stranger in it. She needs security. So when she falls in love, the first concept, the first idea, is how to be secure, safe. She would not like to make love to a man unless marriage is settled. Marriage has to be the first thing, then anything else can follow.

Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no inner necessity for it to continue. It is like a flower: bloomed in the morning, by the evening gone. It is not like the rock. Marriage is more permanent; you can rely on it. In old age it will be helpful.

I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.

I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Same-sex marriage confuses the balance that God created when he created male and female. He created a balance, where both sides would bring something to the table that would reflect the uniqueness of the creation. There is no reflection of the uniqueness of creation in same-sex marriage.

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.