Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The line treats marriage not as a steady state of harmony but as an ongoing process of negotiation between two strong-willed people. “Desperate arguments” suggests that conflicts in intimate life can feel urgent and existential because so much—identity, security, love, pride—is at stake. Yet the phrase “feel passionately about” also implies that the intensity of disagreement is inseparable from the intensity of attachment: the arguments arise because both partners care deeply. Read this way, the quote is less a cynical dismissal than a bracingly unsentimental view of marriage as sustained by continual, emotionally charged debate rather than by perpetual calm.