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Quotes About Divorce

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
~ Debbie Reynolds
I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.
~ Brian Dunkleman
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
~ Miguel
Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
~ Gerald F. Lieberman
Divorce: such a spiteful-sounding word – but such an appealing concept. Marriage: such a softly seductive word – but such a spiteful reality.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
what could I say to Clovis? a woman had to obey her husband in those days, Rachel divorce was shameful and only granted on the grounds of adultery, if a marriage didn't work out, it was a life sentence
~ Bernardine Evaristo
The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
~ Bianca Jagger
It takes time to heal those wounds of divorce. I don't know if they completely heal.
~ Randy Meisner
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
~ Roger Waters
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.
~ George W. S. Trow
Her words made him realize that his wife must have been lonely when he was away. He hadn't thought she had her own ideas and feelings. More worrisome, she never doubted that they would stay together for the rest of their lives. What a simple-hearted woman! This realization distressed him and foiled his first attempt at a divorce.
~ Ha Jin
My favorite Viagra ad, a Spanish-language print ad I saw some years ago, simply shows an image of the distinctive blue pill with the text "Un divorcio menos. Gracias, Pfizer." ("One less divorce. Thanks, Pfizer.")
~ Hanne Blank
What can you tell me about his divorce?" "Just that it's been acrimonious as all hell.
~ Harlan Coben
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
~ Amity Gaige
The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
~ Edd Byrnes
I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
~ Lana Wood
I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
~ James Denton
My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
~ Ellen Hopkins
We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.
~ Robyn Carr
My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.
~ Jesse Metcalfe
Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson