35 Loveless Marriage Quotes

If your relationship features more lows than highs, use these 35 loveless marriage quotes to ease the pain.

Quotes About A Loveless Marriage

1. “Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.” – Bell Hooks

2.”Every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.” – George Eliot

3. “Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows no deep feelings of inadequacy or longing.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

4. “For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.” – E.W. Howe

5. “All sins, except a sin against itself, love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true love should pardon.” – Sir Robert

6. “All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.” – John Updike

7. “An unhappy person in marriage is always the most unhappy kind of parent.” – Rossana Condoleo

8. “While neither of us is content, neither of us wants to quit. So we keep hurting one another while claiming to be in love.” – Rupi Kaur

9. “Lack of communication is the main cause of unhappy marriages.” – Akita Lailah Gifty

10. “A lack of responsive intimate interactions is the first sign of marriages’ demise. Conflict develops later.” – Sue Johnson

11. “A man and his wife fight 100 times more when they are by themselves than they do in front of other people.” – E.W. Howe

12. “I find it astonishing that a miserable marriage continues to be miserable after it is over.” – Rebecca West

13. “There is nothing more severe than living in an unhappy marriage. I’ve witnessed it kill people, so it worries me.” – Simon Cowell

14. “So far, it’s much preferable to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” – Marilyn Monroe

15. “I wasn’t sure which would be the harshest; I debated between having him die in Hell or in an unhappy marriage.” – Lord Byron

16. “Divorce is not always tragic. Staying in an unhappy marriage while giving your kids the wrong lesson about love is awful.” – Jennifer Weiner

17. “Why don’t we call it quits? I suppose that she continues to be with me as I stay with her. And doing that is not simple.” – John Green

18. “Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.” – P.G. Wodehouse

19. “Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of the love is lost.” – Khalil Gibran

20. “Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde

21. “And the worst thing she had heard was the words he hadn’t said, the fact that he hadn’t loved her.” – Danielle Steel

22. “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx

23. “We ruined each other by staying together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” – Kate Chisman

24. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J.K. Rowling

25. “Rich only matters if he marries you, I said grimly. Handsome matters not at all.” – Danielle Teller

26. “Two strangers sharing a roof, that’s the tragedy of a loveless marriage.” – Preeti Shenoy

27. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage.” – Charlotte Gilman

28. “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” – Martha Gellhorn

29. “A bad husband in a marriage can be like a bully; he’s constantly belittling and berating you.” – Anonymous

30. “He is like a black hole; he sucks away any happiness and hope you have.” – Anonymous

31. “At times, sleeping with you makes me feel really lonely.” – H.R.K. Murakami

32. “You can be enough for a person sometimes, but they may decide not to be in your life.” – Shannon Alder

33. “Shouting ruins so many enjoyable moments in one’s life. If your neighbors haven’t heard about it first, you’ve never heard of a bad marriage.” – Lillian Russell

34. “When a noise interrupts your sleep and you don’t want to be awakened, you can have a long, complex dream that explains the entire noise.” – A. Witting

35. “You should not be involved in or worried about an unhappy marriage.” – Anthony Riches