Good Divorce Quotes

#1. There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Laura Wasser

#2. There was no such thing as a good divorce for children.

Liane Moriarty

#3. Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I do want to believe in love. I want all of its trappings, and if it costs me my sanity and a very good divorce lawyer, so be it.

Addison Moore

#5. Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Anna Held

#6. Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships.

Kevin Hart

#7. The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good.

Ruby Dee

#8. I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.

Kristin Armstrong

#9. There's nothing good about divorce.

Val Kilmer

#10. Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.

Cheryl Cole

#11. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Jean Kerr

#12. Keep being a good boy and divorce Katherine. We should be grateful to King Henry the Eighth for that privilege.

S.A. David

#13. Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

David Gray

#14. 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

#15. God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

Suzanne Finnamore

#16. Some things happened and some other things didn't, and at one point I found I'd gone to a place where I married Jascha. Pyotr Frankis had been right: life was funny. It was also reasonably good and so was the relationship. And after the divorce, I got a job.

Pat Cadigan

#17. One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

Nora Ephron

#18. I have moved on and I am in a good place. My relationship with Tiger is centered around our children and we are doing really good - we really are - and I am so happy that is the case. He is a great father.

Elin Nordegren

#19. On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case ...

Mother Teresa

#20. As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

Richard H. Davis

#21. Not long ago, someone who was dissatisfied with his or her spouse and wanted a divorce had to justify that decision. Today it's the opposite: If you're not fulfilled by your marriage, you have to justify staying in it, because of the tremendous cultural pressure to be good to one's self.

Anonymous

#22. It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.

Eugene Mirman

#23. My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

#24. I ever marry, it has to be for good. If I get a divorce I lose access to the money. It all goes back to the family." "What?

Leta Blake

#25. I'd like to give divorce a good name.

Geraldo Rivera

#26. My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

Jack Davenport

#27. I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

Eva Longoria

#28. I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

Debbie Reynolds

#29. You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce

#30. In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

Julia Cameron

#31. I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Kurt Cobain

#32. A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!

Shannon L. Alder

#33. We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!

Marilynn Dawson

#34. Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Mary Karr

#35. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#36. But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom to marry, when to divorce, reduce him to terror as a discipline, or distribute happiness to him, and finally be mentioned in his will.

John Steinbeck

#37. But as my dear friend and relationship sponsor Louis CK has noted, divorce is always good news because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce.

Amy Poehler

#38. Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.

Rich Vos

#39. I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

Helen Fisher

#40. Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

Shannon Hale

#41. Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

Dennis Hopper

#42. There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn't, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn't, and if only they could work out their differences, or keep the dim of discord to a minimum, I could have two whole parents.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#43. No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Dick Gregory

#44. I swallowed. "Mum, you're not going to get divorced, are you?" Her eyes shot open. "Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity." She waited just for a moment, and then she started to laugh.

Jojo Moyes

#45. I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

Ali MacGraw

#46. Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity.

Jojo Moyes