Marriage Quote by Ayn Rand

“Resignation to unhappiness didn't come naturally—she had to learn it.”

— Zen Cho

“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”

— Kate Chopin

“Still, there was a bored sadness to her. And a resignation I’d seen on faces my whole life—people giving up, crossing over to that…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood with salts…

— Jane Austen

“She said, “I’m not marrying anybody.” When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free to die…

— Arundhati Roy

“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But…

— Sarah Dessen

“So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but…

— Joan Silber

“She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.”

— Hilary Grossman

“Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was…

— Paulo Coelho

“I knew we had to celebrate, not the breakup of a marriage, but a woman prepared to be brave.”

— Grace G. Payge