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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes about Marriage

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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Marriage, Pregnancy
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Marriage, Air

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Inspirational, Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.32, A&C Black

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