Barnacles Quote by Augusten Burroughs

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads…

— Wallis Simpson

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it…

— Edith Wharton

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

— Joan Rivers

Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock of human…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

It's terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what…

— Pooja Bedi

Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

— Oscar Levant

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

— Iris Murdoch

Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake…

— Jim Goad

“Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed weaknesses as…

— Anonymous