Marital Unhappiness Quotes

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

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.

Feminists say no-fault divorce was a large hurdle on the path to female liberation. They apparently don't consult the deepest hopes or greatest fears of young women.

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?

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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?"

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

I have strayed from my marriage.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

I am his awfully-wedded wife.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born?

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work, but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.