Alain de Botton Quotes

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

I shouldn't be married.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

I've been married three times and divorced three times.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

My first marriage ended after 24 years.

I'm the kind who is never happy. No matter what it is, I always find room for improvement.

I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Sometimes marriages break up, sometimes relationships don't work.

I'm not one to be satisfied.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.