Courage Quote by Daniel Bullen

“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself…

— Frederick Buechner

“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that…

— Anthony Trollope

“The way to an ordinary marriage is the path of least resistance. If you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it.”

— Justin Davis

“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.”

— Adam Ross

“To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.”

— Julian Fellowes

“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we…

— Gaynor Arnold

“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching…

— Virginia Woolf

“Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.”

— Stephen King

“Marriages can survive without love, but they cannot survive without forgiveness, fortitude, and a good sense of humor.”

— Anonymous

“For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence.…

— Anonymous