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Quotes About Divorce

Your old man sent me anonymous letters himself to make me divorce him." She rippled with he-hes. "I hung on to spite him. I didn't want him. It's my only pleasure left." She laughed.
~ Christina Stead
When enraged, some divorced borderlines may deprive their children of contact with their father either to punish him or the children.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)
~ Christine Delphy
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.
~ Helen Fisher
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often. As a man's marriage becomes less stable, his levels of testosterone rise. With divorce, his testosterone levels rise even more. And single men tend to have higher levels of testosterone than married men.65 The
~ Helen Fisher
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
~ Helen Rowland
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
~ Helen Rowland
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
~ Helen Rowland
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
~ Henny Youngman
Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
~ Henry Miller
But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each other, want to get divorced and yet go on living together, it usually ends in that terrible hell that drives them to drink, makes them shoot themselves, kill and poison each other
~ Leo Tolstoy
According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.
~ letterman david
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
~ letts tracy
When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.
~ Isla Fisher
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
~ Alana Stewart
My father, Prince Aly Khan, and mother divorced when I was only 3. I used to spend summers with him in the South of France.
~ Yasmin Aga Khan
I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
~ Kristin Armstrong
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
~ Jacob Rothschild
Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.
~ Paul Singer
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
~ Mary Wesley
My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.
~ LeToya Luckett
An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.
~ Rita Rudner