Marriage Quote by Michel De Montaigne

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair…

— Michel de Montaigne

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

— Michel de Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

— Michel de Montaigne

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

— George Meyer

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

— Joseph Addison

Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced…

— Rosa Campbell Praed

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous:…

— D. H. Lawrence

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

— Menander

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

— Irvin D. Yalom

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

— Louisa May Alcott

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

— Leo Tolstoy

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

— Aaron Hill