One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.