Kate Chopin Quotes

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.

I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.

I really like being married. I love my husband.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

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

Marriage is wonderful.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.