“Marriage is a desperate thing.”

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

“Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous.”

Pierre Beaumarchais The Marriage of Figaro

“Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.”

Colin Farrell (1976) Irish actor

“Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera