Bed Quote by Ngina Otiende

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

— Anonymous

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

MARRIAGE, A rite where two people, under the influence most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, are required to swear…

— Nikhil Saluja

“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, A confrontation which always demands the greatest understanding of the subtle art of insincerity possible between two human beings;

— Nikhil Saluja

MARRIAGE, A word which always means commitment -- but so does insanity;

— Nikhil Saluja

“But above all, marriage is about wanting to share your life with someone you really, truly love but staying with your spouse instead, no…

— Mrs. Stephen Fry

“First spouses, I have learned, don't ever really go away--even if you aren't speaking to them anymore. They are phantoms who dwell in the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

— Susan Sontag

“Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“Many of the pains and efforts taken to deal with the contemporary marriage are dominated by considerations of well-being, happiness, and biology. This corresponds…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig