Richard Brautigan Quotes

Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'

We can do anything you like. Just be with me.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

I love marriage.

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.

Once you share a ring with someone, go to war with someone... you have a different type of respect for someone.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in.

I really like being married. I love my husband.

For me, love is magic; it's about trust and understanding. It's putting the other person before you effortlessly.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love