Marital Dissatisfaction Quotes

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

I'm not the greatest husband - I've got a girlfriend. It doesn't really please my wife, but then if I was looking to please her I wouldn't have a girlfriend. I mean she knows about it, and I guess she's okay with it. Plus my kids like both of them.

When men get together, they moan about their wives. The commentary provided on marriage between groups of men is typically one from a viewpoint that assumes marriage to be life's greatest, most unfun mistake. Not only is it often as disingenuous as Joe Biden's hairline, but it's incredibly harmful.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

I'm a terrible husband.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.