Dysfunctional Marriage Quotes

Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.

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

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.

[William Randolph] Hearst married a prostitute, and then gradually dragged her down to his own level.

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

My husband thinks I'm insane.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

'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.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.