Quotes About Commitment

He was his wife's man and not his own.

I want to marry Anthony, because husbands are so often 'husbands' and I must marry a lover.

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.

It was a tradition between them that they should never be too tired for anything, and they found it made the days better on the whole and put the evenings more in order.

I love you, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see.

He was his wife's man and not his own.

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.

No,' she said; 'I'd never marry again. I've got my two children and I want myself for them. I like you--I like all clever men, you more than any--but you know me well enough to know that I'd never marry a clever man--' She broke off suddenly.

I'm yours — you know it.

ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388 And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be so lavish as to ruin masterpieces for yourself. There are not enough of them!

She won't marry him, but a girl doesn't have to marry a man to break his heart.

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

Every woman wants to get married and have children.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

We, Andrew. You and

Se casaron con amor, más que por amor.

My lack of initiative was the root cause of all my troubles - of my inability to want something before having thought about it, of my inability to commit myself, of my inability to decide in the only way one can decide: by deciding, not by thinking. I'm like Buridan's donkey, dying at the mathematical midpoint between the water of emotion and the hay of action; if I didn't think, I might still die, but it wouldn't be from thirst or hunger.

Pon todo lo que eres en lo mínimo que hagas

To belong to something — that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.