Quotes About Divorce

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.

The Divorce, it's just like any performance that's given where I really just completely lost myself in that life.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Being a teenager has to be the toughest time for almost everyone. Especially if there's anything you perceive as wrong in your world. I felt put-upon, unworthy. Behind the eight ball. Divorce was an immense failure to me.

nearly all studies consistently show that couples who live together before they marry are more, not less, likely to later divorce than couples who did not live together before their weddings.

A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

In Matthew and Mark the story follows the discussion about divorce, and in so doing contrasts the simple acceptance of the gospel by children to the previous complex and difficult teachings

The giddy, head-over-heels infatuation faded; it mellowed into something else. You got married, then divorced. Or your husband killed himself. Or your brain synapses became encased in gooey plaque and you started putting the frying pan in the icebox instead of in the cabinet where it belonged.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

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.

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Only a minority of people who are unhappy in their marriages today still feel that way even five years later. Unhappy marriages can and often are turned around when couples learn better communication skills or get helpful counseling, or even when they just stick it out and wait for the stresses that are preying on their marriage to subside. And divorce often brings new, unexpected stresses.

The needs of children of married parents & children of divorced parents are the same. They are the same species. So why are children of divorce considered so resilient? Because the adults need them to be that way.