Attraction Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry,…

— Nancy Mitford

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry,…

— Nancy Mitford

Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing…

— John Stuart Mill

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has…

— Stendhal

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot…

— Samuel Johnson

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

— Joseph Addison

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

— Eckhart Tolle

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will.…

— Pope Francis

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most…

— Marianne Faithfull

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

— Bertrand Russell

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

— Coco Chanel