Quotes About Emotions

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs.

Though our feelings come and go, Gods love for us does not.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.

We either marry out of LOVE or out of LUST. But only one of them stays for better and for worse.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Every mans dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.