Divorce Quotes

Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.

~ Brenda Perlin

First of all, he was not my type. He was nice, considerate, unselfish and grounded; qualities I’d never experienced in a man. Usually, I went for the self centered, screwed up, “I’m lost, will you be my mother” type.

~ Brenda Perlin

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

~ Brenda Perlin

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

~ Brenda Perlin

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.

~ Brenda Perlin

Not long after my mom died, my dad pretty much kicked me out of the house. He never said, “Get out of my house,” but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn.

~ Brenda Perlin

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

~ Brenda Perlin

This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.

~ Brenda Perlin

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

~ Brenda Perlin

Living with myself wasn’t all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.

~ Brenda Perlin

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

~ Brenda Perlin

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

~ Brenda Perlin

He would say things like, “But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

~ Brenda Perlin

Somehow, we both got carried away. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

~ Brenda Perlin

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

~ Brenda Perlin

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

~ Brenda Perlin

I knew this for a fact. Little by little, the ache to see him, to hear him would disappear. Little by little I’d forget how his arms felt, how his fingers felt, how his lips felt..the sound of his voice, the intensity of his gaze, all of it. Trace by trace it would slip from my mind, recede into foggy memory. The painful haze that dulled my present would melt into the past. Maybe not all the way, maybe there would be a few scars. Maybe I'd be different, but I’d be me again. Little by little.

~ Jennifer Delucy

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

~ Anthony Liccione

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

~ Gillian Flynn

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don’t know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you’ll never take it for granted again

~ Sue Merrell

LOVE IS LIKE A DESIGNER FASHION, ENJOY IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT. LET IT GO WHEN IT IS GONE BECAUSE A NEW ONE WILL COME.

~ Linda Alfiori

...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.

~ Sharon Olds

Our divorce was an optical illusion, surely, because I am often still there, in my old home with my family. I can so easily fool myself, even without a scope, a lens, a patch of sky to measure my trauma, my blues, my perspective or my period of mourning. Suspension of disbelief can be a very real kind of haunting.

~ Jalina Mhyana

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's desire. What was troubling her this morning? Maybe Kate had reproached her on the phone for leaving me? How dare Kate. Oh yeah? Go for it, my darling. Remind her of what she's missing. No, don't.

~ Mordecai Richler

For once, the tears wouldn't come. She saw that Michael might have been right. It really could be too cold to snow.

~ Anne Tyler

...maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

~ Elena Ferrante

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you. their loyalty ends where the benefits stop.

~ Honeya

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

~ Honeya

I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs.

~ Pansy Schneider-Horst

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously. 6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.

~ Belinda Jeffrey

...Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom... you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, because there's no silver lining at the end of that book, let me tell you. I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well. But her liking it makes me worry now that Nikki really doesn't believe in silver linings, because she says The Great Gatsby is the greatest novel ever written by an American, and yet it ends so sadly. One thing's for sure, Nikki is going to be very proud of me when I tell her I finally read her favorite book. -Silver Linings Playbook, p. 9

~ Matthew Quick

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

~ Shannon L. Alder

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

~ Mitch Albom

From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos of me alone or of mountains and rivers and deer and cats were left intact. Three albums rendered into a revised past. It was as if I'd been alone at birth, alone all my days, and would continue alone.

~ Haruki Murakami

It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories.

~ Auliq Ice

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

~ Abiola Abrams