Quotes About Marriage

O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.

Recusa ser minha mulher? - Essa seria a minha felicidade; mas quisera sê-lo com honra. - Que mais honra? - Um casamento clandestino não nos ficaria bem. Se ambos fôssemos pobres ou ricos, sim; mas a desigualdade das nossas fortunas... - Oh! não faças essa consideração. - É essencial.

Viverem duas criaturas uma para a outra, confundidas, unificadas; pensar, aspirar, sonhar a mesma coisa; limitar o horizonte nos olhos de cada uma, sem outra ambição, sem inveja de mais nada. Sabe o que é isto? -- Sei... é o casamento por fora. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Todas as noivas têm quinze anos.

Se meu marido tivesse em mim uma mulher, e se eu tivesse nele um marido, minha salvação era certa. Mas não era assim. Entramos no nosso lar nupcial como dois viajantes estranhos em uma hospedaria, e aos quais a calamidade do tempo e ahora avançada da noite obrigam a aceitar pousada sob o teto do mesmo aposento. (Confissões de uma viúva moça)

Não lhe bastava ser casada entre quatro paredes e algumas árvores; precisava do resto do mundo, também. E quando eu me vi embaixo, pisando as ruas com ela, parando, olhando, falando, senti a mesma coisa. Inventava passeios para que me vissem, me confirmassem e me invejassem.

NO CÉU   Pois sejamos felizes de uma vez, antes que o leitor pegue em si, morto de esperar, e vá espairecer a outra parte; casemo-nos. Foi em 1865, uma tarde de março, por sinal que chovia.

We're not peculiar. Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Sometimes these desert lines are simply the only way to the next oasis, which is far more lush and beautiful after the desert crossing than it could possibly have been without it.

But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, we and say I? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are we and us, a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive we remains. And most growth has come during times of trial.

A love which depends solely on romance, on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. The famous lovers usually end up dead. A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

You want to bask in your perfect marriage, with your perfect wife and kids, and gloat at the rest of the world! Dont you? And now you've found a flaw, you cant stand it. Well, stand it, Simon! Stand it! Because the world is full of flaws.

Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. "I think when we're married we might have something more modern," he grumbled. "No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even.

You've got a good man there,' Ivy said to Lena. 'Yes,' Lena said. Ivy looked at her sharply. 'Deep down he's full of heart,' Ivy insisted. Ivy, who knew how unfaithful he was, how hard she tried to entertain him. Ivy, who alone knew that they were not married, could be fooled by this little gesture of goodwill.

Mary Paula had severe morning sickness and was in no mood to console him. He had to be particularly consolatory to her.

There's something truly strange about living in a historical moment in which the conservative anxiety and despair about queers bringing down civilization and its institutions (marriage, most notably) is met by the anxiety and despair so many queers feel about the failure or incapacity of queerness to bring down civilization and its institutions.

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.

Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll let me love you until I take my last breath. Promise.

How many times must I tell all of you! Sky, ground, or target. Damn it, you don't point a gun at another person unless you are prepared to kill that person. He scowled at Ona. A careless accident could cost one of you a husband. I've told you from the beginning. The Oregon men won't accept a crippled wife. They insist on brides who are healthy and whole.

Why is it that married people always say Come in when everything they do says Get out? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.

Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. Even within the Four Horsemen, in fact, there is one emotion that he considers the most important of all: contempt. If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt toward the other, he considers it the single most important sign that the marriage is in trouble.

Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent.