Character Quote by Paulo Coelho

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their…

— Marianne Williamson

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy…

— Sandra Bullock

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

Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.

— Fela Kuti

“If the institution of marriage really is failing, maybe it’s because it is no longer the only—or even the best—model for how to make…

— Mandy Len Catron

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult…

— Adam Ross

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The central issue in the marriage is not well-being or happiness. It is, as this book has tried to demonstrate, salvation. Marriage involves not…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

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 with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Susan Sontag

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last;…

— Joyce Carol Oates