Muriel Spark Quotes

There are a lot of reasons why marriages don't continue.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.

I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

She should get a divorce and settle down.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

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

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

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.