“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)

“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters

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)

“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Sonnet XXX from Fatal Interview (1931)
Context: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.