Quotes About Divorce

It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.