Judith Viorst Quotes

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

The city is overrun by a flock of ill-used, and ill-using, petulant, libidinous, extravagant, ill-fitting husbands and wives as a sink is overrun with the foul water of the whole house.

It can be easy to let all sorts of things in your life slide, including your relationship.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

Husbands are never happy. My husband asked me for more space, so I locked him out of the house.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.