Top 100 Marriage Divorce Quotes
#1. Finding a cat
or having a cat find you
can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
Kinky Friedman
#2. I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
Rajneesh
#3. I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Natalie Portman
#4. This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.
Brenda Perlin
#5. 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
#6. Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife
Shelley Winters
#7. Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Rebecca West
#8. The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
Len Deighton
#10. It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you're lucky and you stick it out.
Ruby Dee
#11. Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.
Martin Amis
#12. I know of few families today that aren't touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.
Billy Graham
#13. Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.
Julie Powell
#14. There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
Wallis Simpson
#15. By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
Francis Bacon
#16. This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
Suzanne Finnamore
#17. This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
Suzanne Finnamore
#18. 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
#19. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
Julieanne O'Connor
#20. I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.
Suzanne Finnamore
#21. He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
Carrie Etter
#22. God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it ...
It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.
Joshua Harris
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
Dave Willis
#27. I didn't want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.
Brenda Perlin
#28. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.
Stephen Colbert
#29. 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
#30. It's important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you're asking for problems.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#31. 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
#32. Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man's access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#33. Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.
Linda Sunshine
#34. Divorce is just as contagious as Marriage.
M.G. Hardie
#35. She asked me, "Was your divorce nasty?" "Not at all. The marriage was nasty.
Nelson DeMille
#36. My husband and I have never considered divorce ... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers
#37. The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character.
Auliq Ice
#38. Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.
Roseanne Barr
#39. Make no mistake, what's yours is mine. I don't need a legal document to make me feel any safer in our marriage. If you decide to divorce me and rake me over the coals, I'm not sure any amount of money would ease the pain of losing you. It's a non-issue for me.
Meredith Wild
#41. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
Howard Mittelmark
#42. Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
Billy Graham
#43. 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
#44. A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.
Gary L. Thomas
#45. The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.
Rebecca West
#46. Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire
#47. Somehow, we both got carried away. I don't know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.
Brenda Perlin
#48. Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.
Auliq Ice
#50. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#51. In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
#52. When love is new, it's brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same.
Auliq Ice
#53. Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
Betty Rollin
#55. I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.
Rachel Higginson
#56. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
Oliver Herford
#57. Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.
Solange Knowles
#58. PPROBLEM: You "forget" to take off your shoes in the house.
SOLUTION: There's no solution to this. She'll divorce you if you don't take off your shoes.
Phil Schwarzmann
#59. Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
Germaine Greer
#60. When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
Carl Whitaker
#61. The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.
Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.
Nora Ephron
#62. 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
#63. Divorce is The-Worse that can ever happen to a marriage.
Honeya
#64. Living with myself wasn't all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.
Brenda Perlin
#65. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce
Red Skelton
#66. Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.
Melissa Jensen
#67. I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.
Suzanne Finnamore
#68. 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
#69. I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
Paulo Coelho
#70. I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
Mike Birbiglia
#71. Let's shift from moralizing about and lamenting divorce to understanding that a successful marriage, no matter the length, is one that contributes to knowing ourselves better and evolving into more loving and compassionate people.
Deb Purdy
#72. I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.
Brenda Perlin
#73. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#74. 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
#75. There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.
Solange Nicole
#76. 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
#77. Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.
Shannon Hale
#78. Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.
Maureen F. McHugh
#80. An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
Ann Landers
#81. No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution - but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
H. Kirk Rainer
#82. I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Rebecca West
#83. The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
Baron De Montesquieu
#84. I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#85. I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.
Brenda Perlin
#86. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
Padma Lakshmi
#87. Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.
Dennis Hopper
#88. 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
#89. They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.
Suzanne Finnamore
#90. I love you as the mother of my child: the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
Suzanne Finnamore
#91. Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.
Brenda Perlin
#93. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. (On getting married at 19)
We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.
Crystal Woods
#95. Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.
Tim Matheson
#96. He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.
Brenda Perlin
#97. 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
#98. There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#99. I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.
Harvey Fierstein
#100. People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Mary Wesley
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