Top 100 Divorce Marriage Quotes
#1. No wonder so many marriages ended in divorce. Marriage sucked and husbands were the worse.
Kylie Scott
#2. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.
Shannon L. Alder
#3. Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Rebecca West
#4. The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.
Danica McKellar
#5. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
Julieanne O'Connor
#6. I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.
Suzanne Finnamore
#7. He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
Carrie Etter
#9. There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman Mailer
#10. What's that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there's a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#11. Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
Larry Gelbart
#12. It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
#13. My husband and I have never considered divorce ... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers
#14. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
Howard Mittelmark
#15. There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce ...
Muriel Spark
#16. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#17. Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
Betty Rollin
#18. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
Oliver Herford
#19. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.
Gary Chapman
#20. I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
Paulo Coelho
#21. She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.
Honeya
#22. I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
Freeman Dyson
#23. Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.
Dennis Hopper
#24. For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.
And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.
Alyssa Urbano
#25. I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.
Brenda Perlin
#26. The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.
Donna Ball
#28. I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.
Will Rogers
#29. The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.
Cokie Roberts
#30. Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.
Caroline Abbott
#31. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
Erica Jong
#33. First of all, he was not my type. He was nice, considerate, unselfish and grounded; qualities I'd never experienced in a man. Usually, I went for the self centered, screwed up, "I'm lost, will you be my mother" type.
Brenda Perlin
#34. Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.
Ava Gardner
#35. There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.
Delia Ephron
#36. If love was absent, you would not feel disappointed; you would feel indifferent.
Staci Bartley
#37. The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.
Stephanie Coontz
#38. My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.
Kate Christensen
#39. In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.
Christine Benvenuto
#40. The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
James Brolin
#41. Divorce was never a thought ... A life together forever was our only plan.
Fawn Weaver
#42. I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.
Chelsea Handler
#43. We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway.
Julieanne O'Connor
#44. Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.
Laura Wasser
#45. Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.
Suzanne Finnamore
#46. Divorce runs high these days, but I'm an exception to the norm. I got divorced when marriage was still popular.
Bauvard
#47. The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse
it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Tom Brokaw
#48. Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Allan Sherman
#49. My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore.
I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter.
Toba Beta
#50. I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
Ryan Reynolds
#51. And within the house
ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
fury is lapping the walls,
dishes crack on the shelves,
a strangler needs my throat,
the daughter has ceased to eat anything ...
Anne Sexton
#52. My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#53. Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.
Suzanne Finnamore
#54. Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.
Dan Pearce
#55. I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.
Brenda Perlin
#56. When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.
Claire Cook
#57. It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
Suzanne Finnamore
#58. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
#59. With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.
Khloe Kardashian
#60. I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.
Suzanne Finnamore
#61. Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.
Tess Gerritsen
#62. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.
Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel
#63. Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#64. There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#65. He would say things like, "But you are my wife!" when I didn't do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.
Brenda Perlin
#66. God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
Suzanne Finnamore
#67. We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.
Kate Chisman
#68. I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: Oh My God Oh My God.
Suzanne Finnamore
#69. Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
Ariel Gore
#70. We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else.
Rachel Higginson
#71. There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
Shannon L. Alder
#74. In love; it's only those who trust each other, who can make it until the end.
Auliq Ice
#75. I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back.
Karen Joy Fowler
#76. You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.
Rossana Condoleo
#77. Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
Pat Conroy
#78. We liked each other so much we skipped marriage, and went straight to the divorce.
Dean J. Baker
#79. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.
Julieanne O'Connor
#80. I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.
Brenda Perlin
#81. He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.
C.J. English
#82. One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards
Oche Otorkpa
#83. Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
Malcolm Turnbull
#84. It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through
a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#85. It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.
"No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked.
Lisa Kleypas
#87. She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.
A.S. Byatt
#88. If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?
Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.
Edith Wharton
#89. The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
Eminem
#90. My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power!
Julieanne O'Connor
#91. An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar
#92. A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.
Rachel Higginson
#94. We just say: the divorce didn't work out.
Joe
#95. Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.
Liane Moriarty
#96. Divorce is a bitch and marriage is the mother of that bitch.
Nilesh Rathod
#97. I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
Anne Heche
#98. I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
Shia Labeouf
#99. Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.
Will Smith
#100. I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
Brenda Perlin
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