Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage Quotations

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.