Quotes About Reality

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

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

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Marriage is the death of hope.