Quotes About Divorce

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Divorce is the future tense of marriage.

When he got a divorce, he and his wife split the house. He got the outside.

I pay my alimony on the button. I'm afraid that if I don't, my ex-wife will repossess me!

As an adult, I've met an ocean of divorced people. I might even know more divorced people than married people, because I live in godless Los Angeles, where if you're engaged it simply means you're publicly announcing that you are dating a person monogamishly.

What is fascinating to me is that divorced people tend to be the least depressing or depressed people I know. They're all unburdened and cleansed, and the wiser for it. This is the case even if they didn't initiate the divorce.

I might even know more divorced people than married people, because I live in godless Los Angeles, where if you're engaged it simply means you're publicly announcing that you are dating a person monogamishly. I

After six months of hardship and going to therapy three times a week, Sandy's now elated. She realized—as has almost everyone I know who has been left or broken up with—that, by divorcing her, her husband relieved her of the job of eventually leaving him. As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet. Sandy hadn't realized how unhappy she was until he was gone.

You have no significant other at home on any given day of the week. Male, female, alien. I don't care what floats your boat. But you're going to hit crazy-cat lady-territory soon.

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

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.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Sometimes it's wise to divorce your culture, if it continues to hold you back, in order to achieve greatness.

The act of divorce shows the immaturity of the human being in love. We think and imagine that we know so much about love, but we don't know anything at all.

The side effects of divorce can be seen between the relationship or commitment of the government and its citizens. Which usually leads to the destruction of the nation.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

OSCAR. Don't you know what's happening to the old gang? It's breaking up. Everyone's getting divorced....I swear, we used to have better games when we couldn't get out at night.

Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.