Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.