Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Explore a curated collection of 51 quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love t — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money a — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infat — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional tr — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned fr — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacri — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsi — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as w — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambli — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently befor — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage