Top 1200 Unhappy Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.

The institution of marriage has been something that - we have a very temperamental relationship, marriage and I. I've seen a lot of not great examples of it.

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

Every marriage is different, and it's impossible to understand your own marriage, really, much less anybody else's.

It's terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what it was not?

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

We have a very strong marriage. We've been together for going on 32 years. I think we have the strongest marriage I know.

The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

Marriage is not easy, especially when it's a very public marriage. I know firsthand.

Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.

Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights. In fact, marriage is principally about the nurturing and development of children. And the successful development of children is critical to the preservation and success of our nation.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

Granted, there's been mistakes made immaturely, but a marriage is a marriage.

I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't really believe in. 'Traditional marriage' is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.