quotations about divorce
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.
CRAIG FERGUSON
American on Purpose
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
Divorce is a failed challenge, which leads to a broken life. It is a socially transmittable disease that can transfer from one generation to another, and it is spreading fast.
SIA F. DEAN
Divorce Is Not an Answer
The best advice I have for other parents going through a divorce is that the kids need to know that both of their parents are good people. It's easy to set the example of kindness and love and respect when the things are good. So if you can do that when things are hard, and wholeheartedly support their relationship with the other parent--you're showing them a certain kind of resiliency.
BRADLY WHITFORD
Good Housekeeping, Jul. 2010
I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility.
ROBERT DYKSTRA
She Never Said Goodbye
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
ROBERT WOODRUFF ANDERSON
Solitaire: Double Solitaire
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
PAT ROBERTSON
The 700 Club
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Gone is the idea that you know where you are headed, that you know who your friends are, that you know who you are. To get divorced is to feel entirely lost on streets that you could once navigate with your eyes closed. The past feels cut off, across a divide, barely visible behind you.
TOVA MIRVIS
"From Somewhere", Boston Globe Mazazine, Sep. 28, 2013
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.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Red Wolves and Black Bears
You thought your little romance
Was on the strict Q.T.
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q.
Divorce me C.O.D.
MERLE TRAVIS
"Divorce Me C.O.D."
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
JENNIFER WEINER
Fly Away Home
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho
For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something you always have.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Toasts & Quotes
When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Landline
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
LEE TREVINO
attributed, Golf List Mania!
So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease.
DOROTHY DIX
Her Book
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
LARRY GELBART
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split
Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.
SUE MERRELL
Great News Town