Quotes About Divorce

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

1981, Kelly Egan, my first graduate student when I arrived in Seattle, and I bought a house together on the 5200 block of Brooklyn Avenue. Kelly was getting divorced at the time and needed somewhere

Victory in codependency/recovery thus sounds like this: 'As I changed, all hell broke loose in my marriage . . . My husband and I began to fight a lot. My changes threatened him. I kept getting better, but the healthier I got, the worse it got at home. . . . I consider filing for divorce a real triumph in my recovery.

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. Mark 10:9

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.