Quotes About Divorce

he met a nice girl and got married, and they had a kid, and then either he found out she wasn't so nice after all, or she found out he wasn't, or the discovery was mutual. They got a divorce

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married.

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.

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Just promise me you won't be one of those couples that stays together for the children. That only screws people up, including the children.

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.

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.

Studies show that 110% of men who leave their wives for other women report that their wives are crazy.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Sooft in München in Konzert war, bei dem neue Werke von Ludwig Palffy aufgeführt wurden, kaufte sich Luiselotte Körner ein Billett, saß dann mit gesenktem Kopf in einer der letzten billigen Reihen und entnahm der Musik ihres geschiedenen Mannes, daß er kein glücklicher Mensch geworden war. Trotz seiner Erfolge. Und trotz seiner Einsamkeit.

But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents.

She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much

A plan was a plan and a decision was truly a decision and knowing all this and having been well educated in the usages of divorce, Thomas Hudson was happy that a compromise had been made and that the children were coming for five weeks. If five weeks is what we get, he thought, that is what we draw. Five weeks is a good long time to be with people that you love and would wish to be with always.

Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.

Despite a 50 percent divorce rate for first marriages and 65 percent the second time around; despite the staggering frequency of affairs; despite the fact that monogamy is a ship sinking faster than anyone can bail it out, we continue to cling to the wreckage with absolute faith in its structural soundness.

Affairs are always harmful and can never help a marriage or be accommodated. The only way to restore trust and intimacy is through truth-telling, repentance, and absolution. Last but not least, divorce affords more self-respect than forgiveness.

Once divorce carried all the stigma. Now, choosing to stay when you can leave is the new shame.