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Quotes About Divorce

Dr. Dave Stoop tells us that one-tenth of one percent of couples who pray together daily will get a divorce. That incredible statistic underlies what Norman Vincent Peale, the well-known pastor from New York City, used to say: "I have never met a couple who prayed together who didn't stay together.
~ Jim Burns
Maybe some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan. But tomorrow was another day.
~ Jim Butcher
Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
~ Jodi Picoult
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?
~ Jodi Picoult
Yeah, my husband and I just split up. I finally faced the fact that we're incompatible. I'm a Gemini and he's an asshole.
~ Unknown
Q. What should you do if you see your ex-husband rolling around in pain on the ground? A. Shoot him again.
~ Unknown
My Ex-Husband is the BEST husband !
~ Unknown
Who says that I am a bad house keeper, I kept all the houses of my ex-husbands.
~ Unknown
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.
~ Grace Paley
I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold]
~ Roseanne
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Divorce hadn't devastated her. She'd felt awful for her son, but God, she'd felt free, and she'd hoped that a happy mom was more important for Sawyer than a married one.
~ Unknown
because human society has not been operating under this principle, it has passed laws that open the floodgate to mass murder (as in abortion), that endorse rampant sodomy, that consider adultery as a private affair between consenting adults, and that grant divorce as a right to be freely exercised.
~ Unknown
Let go of him, for cryin' out loud!
~ Unknown
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
~ Voltaire
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~ Voltaire
My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.
~ Ayelet Waldman
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
~ Warren Farrell
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
~ Mark Hoppus
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.
~ Rob Lowe
Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.
~ Jerry Hall
Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
~ Richard Jeni
Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."
~ Tony Hsieh
C. S. Lewis shocked many people in his day when he came out in favor of allowing divorce, on the grounds that we Christians have no right to impose our morality on society at large. Although he would continue to oppose divorce on moral grounds, he maintained the distinction between morality and legality.
~ Philip Yancey