Erving Goffman Quotes

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

People tell me they use my song 'Coming Home' at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it's cool when you really get to connect with all different people.

I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

I love weddings: happy people coming together to celebrate in great clothes.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

I always cry at weddings; they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my life.

The day I got married, I felt there is so much more to life.

Who doesn't like a good wedding? Even the most jaded, can be moved to enjoy the hopefulness of a young couple.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?