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Quotes About Divorce

I felt terrible for this man who used to be my husband. We talked a long time about Estelle and Bridget, and then a little bit about our girls; he asked that he be the one to tell Chrissy and Becka about Estelle leaving, and I said, Of course.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
~ Arthur Godfrey
Al divorciarnos de la naturaleza, los hombres hemos perdido la capacidad de consuelo frente al horror que acecha ahí afuera.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.
~ Howard Jacobson
It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.
~ Valerie Plame
You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You're away so much and then 18 months later, you're around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.
~ Jonny Bairstow
The reason that I discouraged my boys as I was discouraged was not because of wrestling itself. The reason I discouraged them as a father was from having lived the lifestyle - like my father did - and understanding the hardships that come along with it. It's not the wrestling itself. It's the 90 percent divorce rate.
~ Ted DiBiase Sr.
The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.
~ Megan Mullally
My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.
~ Kevin Hart
Once I got divorced, there was this knee-jerk reaction to get back in the action and date. I think there's something wrong in that.
~ Chris Harrison
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
~ Princess Diana
There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
~ Taylor Hicks
I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.
~ Rashid Johnson
I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
'Divorce Court' is a great show.
~ Paul Rudd
My own marriages have not been a great success. I've been divorced twice and when I first got divorced it hit my parents very hard.
~ Chris Tarrant
In Shaquille's mind, I think I'm always going to be his wife even though that's not the case. The love is always there and he's one of my best friends. We have a great time together and our kids love us just being a family.
~ Shaunie O'Neal
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
~ Dinah Sheridan
The divorce rate for second marriages is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages. The divorce rate in third marriages is higher still. Apparently the prospect of a happier marriage the second and third time around is not substantial.
~ Gary Chapman
They fall out of love, and at that point either they withdraw, separate, divorce, and set off in search of a new in-love experience, or they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the in-love obsession.
~ Gary Chapman
It also should not be assumed that a marital crisis—the kind where one or both partners feel as if they "can't take it anymore" and seriously consider splitting up—inevitably leads to divorce.
~ Gary Chapman
We agreed there was no benefit to our living together any longer, so we split.
~ Gary Chapman
The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce.
~ Gary Paulsen
If his mother hadn't begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn't be here now. He
~ Gary Paulsen