The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

We're asleep until we love.

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.