Laura Riding Quotes

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

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

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

I was married once. When the tinsel from Tum Bin' was wearing off, so was the happiness from my first marriage. Ever since, I've been wary of marrying again.

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

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.