How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“[Marriage] is the tomb of love.”
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 9, chap. 8, p. 208 ("She will not believe it, for she knows too well that marriage is a sacrament which I detest." "Why?" "Because it is the tomb of love.")
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Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
“Marriage… is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)”
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.”
Quoted in Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (2001), The Subtlety of Emotions, p. 445 http://books.google.com/books?id=S0rkL_Unl-cC&pg=PA445
“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
