Michel Houellebecq Quotes

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's that we compare ourselves to our parents' generation, thinking, 'Who's still together, and are they happy?'

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

In relationship you gotta have friendship because if you don't, even if things may seem perfect in the beginning, times like this when you are married and you have a kid, you have to still be able to have that spunk, that sass, that fun, and that friendship. Because yeah, jumping into something so quickly can very much turn sour very very fast.

She should get a divorce and settle down.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.