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Quotes About Divorce

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.
~ Ivana Trump
I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much ego.
~ Ken Howard
I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
~ Regina King
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
~ Carol Vorderman
I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.
~ Nora Ephron
My second husband, Eric Villency, is the father of my beautiful boy Ronan Anthony. Even though we're divorced, I'm still very close with his family.
~ Kimberly Guilfoyle
I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California I have to go to prison don't I? I think you only get three.
~ Roseanne Barr
Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.
~ Roseanne Barr
A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.
~ Margaret Atwood
I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.
~ Bon Scott
Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.
~ Diamond Dallas Page
Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.
~ Henny Youngman
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
I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.
~ Jay Mohr
Her husband, however, upon this second misdemeanour, immediately sought and obtained a divorce, and, not long after, married again.
~ Anne Bronte
You mean we're going chronological order within each author? he gasped. But no one even knows for sure when Shakespeare wrote his plays! Well, I blustered, we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The Tempest. I'd like to see that reflected on our shelves. George says that was one of the few times he has seriously contemplated divorce.
~ Anne Fadiman
Oh, I know!" Willa said. "Who's going to believe a couple would bother divorcing if they've only developed different hobbies or something?
~ Anne Tyler
God," he said. "I come here to say I feel bad about your husband, and listen to me, yakking about my own little troubles." "I wouldn't call divorce a little trouble," Willa said.
~ Anne Tyler
Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples.
~ Sebastian Junger
Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker. Contempt is often directed at people who have been excluded from a group or declared unworthy of its benefits. Contempt is often used by governments to provide rhetorical cover for torture or abuse. Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples. People who speak with contempt for one another will probably not remain united for long.
~ Sebastian Junger
look around the table: my ex-wife, my ex-girlfriend and me. We aren't a law firm— we're a support group. Somebody will probably name a 12-step program after us.
~ Sheldon Siegel
over which we had no control, but for which we feel responsible. Children of divorce feel it, a widow visiting her husband
~ Sherrie Eldridge
Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon