Quotes About Union

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Marriage itself is consummated with the literal bodily union of husband and wife. From that point on, the husband should regard the wife as his own flesh. If she hurts, he ought to feel the pain. If she has needs, he should embrace those needs as his own. He should seek to feel what she feels, desire what she desires, and in effect, give her the same care and consideration he gives his own body.

Marriage is not a union, merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both, by supplementing their deficiencies with the force of contrast, giving to each sex those excellencies in which it is naturally deficient.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union the sexual from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

To marry and be happy would be the eighth wonder of the world.

The single most important thing that anyone can do in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, with the right authority.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

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

The first bond of society is marriage.

Marriages are made in heaven and are consummated on earth.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.