Association Quote by Edith Wharton

“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together…

— Edith Wharton

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

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather…

— Edith Wharton

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.”

— T.C. Boyle

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His…

— H. L. Mencken

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault…

— Charles Dickens

“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner,…

— Anonymous

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

— Liane Moriarty