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Quotes About Divorce

My parents were divorced when I was 11, and it made such a profound impression on my life that I suppose I thought that by not getting married, you could avoid your life being carved in two.
~ Richard E. Grant
I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.
~ Ryan Phillippe
On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.
~ Marti Noxon
I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
~ Olivia Wilde
My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
~ B. B. King
Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.
~ Deborah Moggach
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.
~ Helen Fisher
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
~ Tamara Mellon
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.
~ Don McCullin
Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.
~ Euripides
Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. I can understand a man wishing he hadn't married and trying to get out of it—though I never felt anything of the kind myself—but to get rid of one wife and take up with another immediately, is beyond all reason.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.
~ Dwyane Wade
Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.
~ Jonathan Agnew
I got divorced on February 14, 2003, and got engaged on February 14, 2019. I have had relationships in between and my kids have liked every person that I have been with. But it is very different with Maneck - they adore him and want him in our lives forever.
~ Pooja Bedi
As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.
~ Stephanie Coontz
If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.
~ Patti Stanger
I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
~ Boy George
Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.
~ Ty Dolla Sign
After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.
~ Emily V. Gordon
I don't really know that there's a sign that someone is going to file for divorce with no face-to-face conversation.
~ Chrishell Stause
Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.
~ Stephen Hendry
I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
~ Billy Crudup