Top 100 Quotes About A Divorce
#1. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
#2. My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.
Milton Berle
#3. I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.
Christina Aguilera
#4. If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard ...
Jennifer Crusie
#5. 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
#6. Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.
Linda Alfiori
#7. For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to
me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to
make myself feel better.
Richard Ford
#8. I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.
Caroll Spinney
#9. 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
#10. Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows.
Edith Wharton
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. How is a redneck divorce similar to a tornado?
You know that somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna lose a trailer.
Jeff Foxworthy
#14. 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
#15. It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
Mona Simpson
#16. Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
Jane Fonda
#21. We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.
Pawan Mishra
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#25. a piece of graffiti scrawled on a Brazilian train read: "Those who petition for divorce use the ink of their children's tears".
Anonymous
#26. I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly Parton
#27. Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.
Dacia Maraini
#28. Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.
Phyllis Diller
#29. Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,
Have been given a bad name.
They're easy targets.
When the family goes awry
How easy to blame them.
I was blessed by the right steps ...
Eileen Granfors
#30. My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
Christian Camargo
#31. Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.
Drew Fuller
#33. 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
#34. As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.
Groucho Marx
#35. Divorce is The-Worse that can ever happen to a marriage.
Honeya
#36. 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
#37. A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.
Steve Aylett
#38. 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
#39. I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.
Nora Ephron
#40. I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.
Sharon Stone
#41. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#42. My name is John Taylor. I'm a private eye, specialising in cases of the weird and uncanny. I don't solve murders, I don't do divorce work, and I wouldn't recognise a clue if you held it up before my face and said Look, this is a clue.
Simon R. Green
#43. Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Cary Grant
#45. As my friend Amy observed: "Divorce is like a Polaroid picture. What truly happened will develop over time and you will see.
Augusten Burroughs
#46. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
Padma Lakshmi
#47. It'll be okay," I said.
"We're here for you." Kelly said.
"I've decided to become a divorce lawyer," Amanda said.
Well, we all have our own ways of showing we care.
Janette Rallison
#48. Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.
John Updike
#49. It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
Ricki Lake
#50. Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.
Debbie Ford
#51. 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
#52. You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.
Joanna Garcia
#53. There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#54. I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
Anthony Burgess
#55. A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
#56. He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.
Suzanne Finnamore
#57. A church can ignore the culture only until, as the divorce culture did in the past, that culture reshapes the church in a way that obscures the gospel itself.
Russell D. Moore
#58. 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
#59. Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.
Dave Mordal
#60. Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
Joe Hill
#61. I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
Albert Brooks
#62. Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
Pat Robertson
#63. Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their face!
Auliq Ice
#64. I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
Lisa Scottoline
#65. The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician had whisked a cloth off the table, leaving the dishes there, jolted. And when we looked back it was all a blur, time on fast forward, hurtling to an inevitable conclusion.
Kathryn Stern
#66. Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.
Rachel Holmes
#67. Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later went through Harvard Business School, a staph infection, and a divorce.
John Irving
#69. A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.
Jimmy Fallon
#70. It won't be whiskey, won't be meth
It'll be your name on my last breath
If divorce or death ever do us part
The coroner will call it a broken heart
The Band Perry
#71. I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.
Lenny Clarke
#72. Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.
Shirin Ebadi
#73. There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
Jack Black
#74. Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
Bob Harper
#75. Grief is part of my human experience. There will always be loss during my lifetime. Loss has come in a variety of forms to me - such as death, divorce, losing a job, and selling a beloved home. Each event brought me new opportunities and experiences that would not have been possible otherwise.
Lisa J. Shultz
#76. Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.
Geraldine Brooks
#77. A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you.
Jimmy Fallon
#78. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. In every work out there comes a moment where you have to decide to keep pushing hard - through the doubt, discomfort and fear of the pain. You have two choices at this point - to push through and to mentally divorce your mind of the doubt, discomfort and fear or you can surrender.
Lisa Rainsberger
#80. I survived a divorce, no children and come to Paris three days per week. My cat ran away on a love adventure; don't know when he will be back.
Tionne Rogers
#81. She should get a divorce and settle down.
Jack Paar
#82. If you hope to play a part in this empire, Sanlitun had told her time and time again, you must learn to divorce your feelings from your face. The world sees what you allow it to see, judges you according to what you reveal.
Brian Staveley
#83. I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
Carrie Brownstein
#84. Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
Warren Farrell
#85. Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
Gregory David Roberts
#86. So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.
Eva Longoria
#87. Again, no disrespect intended, but she looked to me like a divorce that hadn't found a courtroom yet.
James Anderson
#88. I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you've never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere.
Courtney Giardina
#89. The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#90. I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.
Matt McGorry
#91. I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.
Sid Gillman
#92. Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
Gail Sheehy
#93. A long term relationship is priceless! Divorce isn't. This book should help you get it right the first time. Since it just came out however, it will help you get it right the next time also.
Susan Ziggy
#94. 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
#95. If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
Neil S. Plakcy
#96. Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
Keeley Hawes
#97. I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.
Kristan Higgins
#98. Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
Lorrie Moore
#99. Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
Lee Radziwill
#100. 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
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