Edith Wharton Quotes

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

You take it very seriously when you start any project, but not everything in life ends up where you think it's going to be.

I've had relationships with men who are simply not willing to change their lifestyle. That's fine if you're unformed as a woman and you're able to blend yourself into something that's a convenient vessel. It's hard once you become a mother, I'll tell you. Something changes.

You want there to be some magical answer that will just make everything clear and easy to understand, and that's just not the way love works.

I think that it's a great idea to have honest conversations about children before getting married. I also think it's impossible to promise someone, "What I want right now will never change, and as long as I promise you I do - or don't - want a child - or a specific number of children - before we get married, we will never have to experience fear, anxiety, uncertainty, or the pain of not getting what we want, when we want it.

I don't know. I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy.

Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.