Home » Quote » Joseph Campbell » „Marriage… is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)“ „Marriage… is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)“ — Joseph Campbell Tags:LoveMarriage Related quotes „Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.“ — Joseph Campbell „Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.“ — Emil M. Cioran „It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.“ — Marilyn Monroe „Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.“ — Haruki Murakami „It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche