Quotes About Divorce

#1. O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

Ricki Lake

#6. 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

#7. Everybody thinks they're a prophet. They must, or nobody would get married. Or maybe at a 50% divorce rate, only half the people are fortune tellers. Probably the men.

Jarod Kintz

#8. Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness

Divorce Goddess

#9. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive.

Regina King

#10. America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

Bob Hope

#11. I don't know why anyone wants to get married," said Burke. "I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce.

Michael Thomas Ford

#12. 'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

Katie Hafner

#13. I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Hendrik Hertzberg

#15. Divorce hadn't devastated her. She'd felt awful for her son, but God, she'd felt free, and she'd hoped that a happy mom was more important for Sawyer than a married one.

Victoria Dahl

#16. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Nevada Barr

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

Michael Douglas

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

Ozzy Osbourne

#19. At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

Kato Kaelin

#20. Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

Sarah Dessen

#21. Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Merle Shain

#22. I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

Roseanne Barr

#23. I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

Dennis Prager

#24. 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

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

Ariel Gore

#26. Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

Billy Graham

#27. Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.

Jay Kopelman

#28. Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Divorce, and broken marriages, are all around us, but they're not frequently depicted on screen, or if they are, they're often depicted in ways that have very little to do with reality.

Katie Hafner

#32. No wonder so many marriages ended in divorce. Marriage sucked and husbands were the worse.

Kylie Scott

#33. I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

Edward Albee

#34. Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce.

Donald Barthelme

#35. Chile was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to legalize divorce,

Hector Tobar

#36. We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

James Balog

#37. Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

Daven Anderson

#38. Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Bjork

#39. She edged closer. "If this is your attempt to scare me away because you think I should be with a mortal man, it's not going to work." She rolled her eyes. "Been there, done that, have the divorce papers to prove it.

Kristen Painter

#40. 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

#41. I feel scalded inside. Like, third-degree burns. But no one can see them. (Fliss talking about her divorce.)

Sophie Kinsella

#42. 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

#43. Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.

Diana Gabaldon

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!

Winston Churchill

#48. In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

Tom Franklin

#49. In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Ruth Gordon

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

Nujood Ali

#51. I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.

Antony Hegarty

#52. Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.

Katie Hafner

#53. Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.

Christopher Titus

#54. I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent.

S.K. Tremayne

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. I want you to be happy. I want to do my job so that you can move past this divorce and have a chance at normality.

Alessandra Torre

#58. You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

James Hillman

#59. Divorce is a process, not an event. It takes months to unfold, a barrage of emotional ups and downs as denial is replaced by grief, grief by anger, and anger gradually eases into acceptance.

M.K. Tod

#60. The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

#61. I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

Jess Walter

#62. 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

#63. Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.

Isabella Rossellini

#64. Things never got tidied up the minute a couple got divorced. It seemed, from what I'd seen, that the divorce itself was the easiest part and all the real shit is what came afterward, shit that went on for years.

Karina Halle

#65. Even the most painful changes we can experience such as divorce, accidents, illness or death offer us powerful lessons.

Robin S. Sharma

#66. Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

John Hope Bryant

#67. Now we don't celebrate divorce, of course. But we see it as a personal tragedy, not as a scandal in our witness to the gospel.

Russell D. Moore

#68. 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

#69. My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Rob Lowe

#70. I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Nas

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Catherine Deneuve

#74. It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

J. Edwin Orr

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

Peter Lynch

#78. The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Travis Tritt

#79. Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#80. I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the harder it is to recover.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#81. I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

Gwen Stefani

#82. But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.

Plutarch

#83. To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

James Caan

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

Dean Koontz

#85. If you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."
She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.

Mitch Albom

#86. I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

Johnny Carson

#87. I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

Carolyn Green

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Voltaire

#91. 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

#92. Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

Natalie Imbruglia

#93. 'Facts of Life' was and continues to be a milestone on my journey. But when people act like the journey ended when 'Facts of Life' ended, that's annoying. I could never and would never want to divorce myself from it because it was such a great experience from so many different facets.

Kim Fields

#94. 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

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

John Grisham

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.

Alana Stewart

#100. I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Olga Kurylenko