Asking Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Aaron Hill

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that…

— Anonymous

“A marriage only works if one opens to exactly that which one would never ask for otherwise. Only through rubbing oneself sore and losing…

— Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

— Edward Abbey

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

— Washington Irving

“In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“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, Is much like a pair of shears, so joined so the parts cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing…

— Nikhil Saluja

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of…

— Allan Pease

Marriage is a state of antagonistic cooperation.

— Katharine Lyall Whitehorn