Quotes About Divorce

The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.

I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.

I just want to bend fire. You know, it'd be cool to throw some fire to a couple of old agents, the ex wife.

I married my best friend when I was 23, but when I realized I wanted to move to L.A. to follow my dreams, we separated and eventually divorced.

I was going through a divorce so I wasn't having the best time, but I wasn't going to the doctor for Prozac.

Even for a billionaire, a divorce isn't easy.

I struggle because I really don't want to be married again - can you blame me? - but I don't want to be alone.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.

It was just a very short period of time that I had a brief marriage.

When my last relationship broke up, I bought a house one door along from my ex so that our daughter could continue to see as much of both of us as possible. This seems to me eminently sane and civilised.

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

For me, success is being happy. I used to think it was lots of houses, lots of record sales, lots of stories to tell. But some massive life changes, getting a divorce and my dad dying, led to a huge period of reflection.

Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.

Any divorce is going to suck.

Ever since I became better acquainted with classical music, I've wanted to try my hand at longer forms, but I could never really see my way to it. And after I got divorced, all of a sudden I had a lot of pent-up energy and lots of stuff that had gone into trying to make this failing relationship work that kind of got reapplied.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.

I watched my mom suffer from a divorce where she depended on my father.

When I say my family suffered for my anti-war protesting, one of the many fallouts was having to send my two sons to America because I couldn't keep control of them when the divorce happened... there are consequences for your actions.

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.