Long marriage 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

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

“In some ways, a long marriage is a bit like embarking on a journey. There’s a point at which you may might realise the…

— K.L. Slater

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 intimacy we share is something truly special, a bond that goes far beyond mere physical attraction or temporary connections. It's the kind of…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“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

“All the vital components that make a relationship successful, without any of the emotional messiness to drag it down. It's about respect, caring, and…

— Mira Lyn Kelly

“Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.”

— Cassandra Clare

A long lasting relationship is not just about romancing each other or being passionate in the bed each day. It is all about complete…

— Anonymous

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

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