quotations about divorce
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
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
BETTY FRIEDAN
speech, Jan. 20, 1974
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
REBECCA WEST
attributed, Rebecca West: A Life
The springtime of divorce is like that, as well. Everything isn't rosy and put in place yet. Nor have all the shadows and snows of the dark winter days disappeared. But there are signs that things are changing: a new time of warmth is just ahead.
RICHARD D. CROOKS
Finding God in the Seasons of Divorce
A divorce is like taking away one of the two hands. The motor in the clock still runs. The one hand keeps turning, but the time is gone.
WESLEY T. RUNK
The Giant Book of Children's Sermons
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho
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
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
DENIS DIDEROT
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE
The Women
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
Grown-ups are worried that they're going to ruin their children's lives, but divorce is just a life experience and you learn from it.
EVAN STERN
Divorce Is Not the End of the World
My mother always said, "Don't marry for money, divorce for money."
WENDY LIEBMAN
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
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!
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."
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
I try not to think of divorce as failing at marriage but rather winning at bitterness and resentment.
ANONYMOUS
We've put it down, we've patched it up
We both have had our say
Divorce ain't black, divorce ain't white
Just a sad ole shade of gray.
BILL ANDERSON
"Sad Old Shade of Gray"
Divorce is like death without a burial.
DANE CUNNINGHAM
Risky Relationships