quotations about divorce
Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
E. LOCKHART
We Were Liars
The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.
JO COUDERT
Advice from a Failure
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
ELSIE CLEW PARSONS
Fear and Conventionality
The easiest way to get a divorce is to be married.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
JOHN IRVING
A Widow for One Year
First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it's important that first marriages go wrong. That's how we learn the truth about ourselves.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
I've been through divorce and will always be a "divorced kid".... For me, my parent's divorce was hard at first, but I overcame my sadness and my fears about it. I know that my parents are happier apart. And I'm happy with the way things are, too.... Divorce can sometimes be for the better. You may end up with happier parents, and you will definitely learn a lot about yourself! And that's the whole point of growing up. So if you think about it, there are reasons to be happy about this experience, if you can learn and grow from it.
ZOE STERN
Divorce Is Not the End of the World
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
JENNIFER WEINER
Fly Away Home
There is a rumor that seven states are considering overpruning as a cause for divorce, second only to incompatibility and adultery. I hope our state is one of them. No judge would dare deny me freedom after he heard the story of my privet hedge.
ERMA BOMBECK
Forever
The best advice I have for other parents going through a divorce is that the kids need to know that both of their parents are good people. It's easy to set the example of kindness and love and respect when the things are good. So if you can do that when things are hard, and wholeheartedly support their relationship with the other parent--you're showing them a certain kind of resiliency.
BRADLY WHITFORD
Good Housekeeping, Jul. 2010
The real wonder is that anyone stays together, as impossible to live with and as broken as we all are.
KYRAN PITTMAN
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
My mother always said, "Don't marry for money, divorce for money."
WENDY LIEBMAN
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
The snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split
The springtime of divorce is like that, as well. Everything isn't rosy and put in place yet. Nor have all the shadows and snows of the dark winter days disappeared. But there are signs that things are changing: a new time of warmth is just ahead.
RICHARD D. CROOKS
Finding God in the Seasons of Divorce
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
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws
A divorce is like taking away one of the two hands. The motor in the clock still runs. The one hand keeps turning, but the time is gone.
WESLEY T. RUNK
The Giant Book of Children's Sermons
Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
You thought your little romance
Was on the strict Q.T.
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q.
Divorce me C.O.D.
MERLE TRAVIS
"Divorce Me C.O.D."
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.
CRAIG FERGUSON
American on Purpose