Quotes About A Divorce

#1. You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, and I hate that I cheated on you, and I wish we'd never gotten divorced.

Terry McMillan

#2. Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

Mike McGavick

#3. With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

Vince Gill

#4. An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.

Akhil Sharma

#5. At that age I thought apartments were built specifically to house the single or the newly single, a divorce dormitory of sorts.

Carrie Brownstein

#6. As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

Tariq Ali

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.

Evan Esar

#10. Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

Hedy Lamarr

#11. I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

Lee Tergesen

#12. Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

Karen Salmansohn

#13. Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

Gudjon Bergmann

#14. Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

Aziz Ansari

#15. Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose.

Gail Caldwell

#16. Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Samuel Butler

#17. If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

Terry Crisp

#18. In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

Dan Dailey

#19. Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

Scarlett Thomas

#20. There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Elbert Hubbard

#21. 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

#22. I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Dinah Sheridan

#23. It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Melissa Etheridge

#24. If two people get married in West Virginia and then pull up stakes and move to Massachusetts and then if they decide they want to get a divorce, what's the biggest problem getting a divorce?

David Foster Wallace

#25. A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

Marvin Mitchelson

#26. Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

Jerry Hall

#27. I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.

Jessa Crispin

#28. Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.

Suzanne Finnamore

#29. I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

Dan Barker

#30. The Field isn't really much of a field, it's more like a property plot that someone never built on because they died or lost it in a divorce or something ...

Patrick Ness

#31. I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.

Ivana Trump

#32. Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Jerry Hall

#33. I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Dale Archer

#34. 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

#35. I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.

Woody Allen

#36. It's so easy to get a divorce nowadays that people just jump in and out of marriage. Nobody wants to work for anything anymore. They expect everything in life to be handed to them, for everything to come easy. Well, I'll tell you something. Relationships aren't easy. They're anything but.

Steph Nuss

#37. I have heard of people's lives being changed by a dramatic or traumatic event
a death, a divorce, a winning lottery ticket, a failed exam. I never heard of anybody's life but ours being changed by a dinner party.

Wallace Stegner

#38. She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.'
'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said.
'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

John Green

#39. Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.

Julia Cameron

#40. You can't go through a divorce and then get back together.

Peter Andre

#41. 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

#42. Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

Sarah McLachlan

#43. A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end - the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad.

Daniel Kahneman

#44. Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.

Jay Leno

#45. And no prenup. Prenups are for people who plan on getting a divorce. I have so much, Bernie. But I've never had anyone to share it with. From now on, what's mine is yours

Jane Graves

#46. There's never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.

Kenneth Eade

#47. She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Dean Koontz

#48. One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

Jenna McCarthy

#49. Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

Cheryl Cole

#50. You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn't reverse it.

Kellyn Roth

#51. Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you both believe, individually, that you've put your best into it.

Heather Mills

#52. If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

Joyce Brothers

#53. Very romantic," said Lillian, her voice now like the sound of snapping dry bones in her bare hands. "A middle-aged Romeo, and a Juliet who wants a divorce.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#54. One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup ... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.

Steve Maraboli

#55. A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

John Grisham

#56. What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.

Colbie Caillat

#57. I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

Laura Wasser

#58. My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

Bryce Dallas Howard

#59. A divorce party
that's really better than a wedding party!

Nujood Ali

#60. For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

Woody Allen

#61. I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

Dave Grohl

#62. The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Hedy Lamarr

#63. I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.

Buddy Guy

#64. Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Ariel Gore

#65. I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

Rashid Johnson

#66. As for the kids, once the damage is done with a divorce, you can't ever make it right.

Ozzy Osbourne

#67. There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

Michael Douglas

#68. Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

Warren Farrell

#69. It means you are breaking up with your spouse, not your kids. They are the most important thing to consider while going through a divorce.

L.J. Burke

#70. If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

Tullian Tchividjian

#71. Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

Hedy Lamarr

#72. It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.

Brian Wilson

#73. 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

#74. The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#75. At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

John Lennon

#76. If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

David Ginola

#77. Again, no disrespect intended, but she looked to me like a divorce that hadn't found a courtroom yet.

James Anderson

#78. Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

Gregory David Roberts

#79. A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

Sophie Kinsella

#80. Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

Jenna McCarthy

#81. Victoria summarized it with this last gem, "Look, all I know is that it's really hard for a couple to ask for a divorce from each other when their genitals are buried in each other's faces.

Luke Young

#82. I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

Frank Abagnale

#83. Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

David Byrne

#84. On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

Doris Lessing

#85. There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

Janet Jackson

#86. The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a job loss, a medical problem, or a divorce. And the fact is that those are exactly the kind of calamities that the bankruptcy courts were designed to help people through.

Amelia Warren Tyagi

#87. 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

#88. Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

Phyllis Diller

#89. It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

Larry Wilmore

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. I just understand ... I mean this may sound kind of bigheaded, bullheaded, or cumbersome, but when people say they've had a really deep experience with the record, like it caused a divorce or it like ... I've gotten all these stories.

Justin Vernon

#93. Divorce is never a nice thing, but it's very easy to take family for granted, and when there's a divorce, you don't take things for granted so much.

Ivanka Trump

#94. That's a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? That's like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware
she took the dog, too. (Harvick) didn't get the animal, I would say.

Clint Bowyer

#95. Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.

Kenneth Eade

#96. Would you go into a relationship planning the breakup? Would you write the prenup on a first date? Would you meet with a divorce lawyer the morning of your wedding? That would be ridiculous, right?

Jason Fried

#97. 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

#98. It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

Frank Carson

#99. The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#100. 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