Causes Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.

— Richard E. Grant

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

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities…

— Michael J. Fox

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life:…

— Esther Perel

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

— Iris Murdoch

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

— Dolly Parton

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive…

— Monica Bellucci

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and…

— Diana L. Eck

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

— Oscar Wilde