#lovelessness

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #lack-of-feeling #love #lovelessness #marriage

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#love #lovelessness #love

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #lovelessness #people #pity #quotable

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony