Chris Rock Quotes

A relationship is just a giant grey thing. Just beautiful and also frustrating. And it involves everything.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

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.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.