Failure Quote by Patti Callahan Henry

“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against…

— Michael Chabon

“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we…

— Gaynor Arnold

“He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.”

— Elizabeth Mckenzie

“Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.”

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.”

— Adam Ross

“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage should be like time, we shouldn’t try to change it nor undo it, but instead make the most and the best out of…

— Roxcy Joy Afable

“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact…

— Jonathan Tropper

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel

“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to…

— John Connolly

“Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.”

— Kate Atkinson