Awful Quote by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

— Samuel Richardson

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

— Anonymous

I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths,…

— Doris Lessing

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

— Stephen Marche

“I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of…

— Edmund Morris

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

— Oscar Wilde

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and…

— Leo Tolstoy

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

— Margaret Fuller

Married life is really nice. It's different. It feels different.

— Hilaria Baldwin

I think both husband and wife should have busy minds, not see too much of each other, but not too little either: just get…

— Gauri Khan