Anthony Trollope Quotes

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

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.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.

I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.

Love takes a lot of work.

My family has sacrificed a lot.

I think if somebody doesn't have the time to work on a relationship, then they shouldn't get into it.

I told my wife that I want to take a three-year break. She supported me and said, 'Please go ahead.' I am grateful that she supported me. For me, this romance and understanding is very important in our marriage.

The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that's it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I'll always have the memories of that with me.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

There is no love without sacrifices.