Divorce Quotes

 

 

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

 

My husband and I have never considered divorce. Murder sometimes, but never divorce. ~ Joyce Brothers

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. ~ Helen Rowland

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. ~ Gerald F. Lieberman

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. ~ Jean Kerr

Divorce is a game played by lawyers. ~ Cary Grant

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. ~ Hedy Lamarr

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. ~ Garry Trudeau

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book. ~ Marvin Mitchelson

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

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. ~ Voltaire

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. ~ Margaret Atwood

When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. ~ Monica Bellucci

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. ~ Richard Wagner

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. ~ Annette Funicello

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

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. ~ Lemuel K. Washburn

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. ~ Alana Stewart

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

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support. ~ Alana Stewart

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage. ~ Jennifer Garner

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It’s important for a woman to be able to control her finances. ~ Maria Bartiromo

My mother always said don’t marry for money, divorce for money. ~ Wendy Liebman

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride. ~Diane Hammond

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned! ~Mehmet Murat ildan

Losing a mate to death is devastating but it’s not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it’s an insult beyond comparison. ~Sue Merrell

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty. ~ Joyce Vissell

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they’re gone and yet still mourn the good parts. ~ Shannon

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.  ~ Unknown