It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
I'd rather be happily single than unhappily married.
According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.
There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
