Divorce Quotes

I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface. Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace.

~ Patricia Robin Woodruff

The bewilderment is the worst part. That’s what they don’t tell you in divorce articles. They talk about anger and loneliness and growing apart and starting over and being kind to yourself, but they don’t tell you about the untold hours in the black hole of why. Why? What changed? When? Why was I the one you chose to marry, but all of a sudden, I’m not enough anymore?

~ Kristan Higgins

Women withhold sex, then men make it boring and soon their marriage is over.

~ Linda Alfiori

Divorce is success. Failure is staying married to a person you no longer love.

~ Ben Tolosa

She must ask; she must heal, and if she couldn’t heal, she must suffer, but if there was a chance, she must take it.

~ Kellyn Roth

As a divorced man, I can say from experience that there may come a time when a couple decides it is best to live separate lives: where you have different dreams and are no longer willing to make sacrifices to achieve the other’s goal.

~ Carlos Wallace

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

~ Erle Stanley Gardner

Have a great relationship with your ex.

~ Roger Mcewan

Zero cavities.Two abortions. One divorce.Thirty years on Earth.

~ Asa Akira

Perhaps I didn’t voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.

~ Padma Lakshmi

. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

~ Nora Ephron

And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.

~ Padma Lakshmi

It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.

~ Linda Alfiori

But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

~ Nora Ephron

At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

~ Padma Lakshmi

One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger, it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

~ Nora Ephron

Divorce is a process, not an event. It takes months to unfold, a barrage of emotional ups and downs as denial is replaced by grief, grief by anger, and anger gradually eases into acceptance.

~ M. K. Tod

Everything I had been carting from one stage of my life to another, to remind me of me, was in the boxes that surrounded me. And there were so many of them now, just days before my thirty-seventh birthday. But so little left of me. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

~ Padma Lakshmi

Some days my mantra was I will stay in this marriage because I am a Christian and Christians stay, but other days, I thought: if the choices are Christianity or divorce then I will just have to embrace secular humanism because I am not even sure I believe any of this anymore and it is one thing to devote twenty minutes every morning to praying when you are not sure you believe anything anymore and it is another thing to organize your whole life around a marriage you don’t want to be in because a God who may or may not exist says let no man put asunder.

~ Lauren F. Winner

It turns out there is something worse than attending a wedding where you don't know anyone: attending a wedding where you know six people, and they are all your ex-husband's best friends.

~ Lauren F. Winner

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

~ Padma Lakshmi

Trust is very hard to earn, yet very easily to lose. So, if you want people to perceive you as trust worthy make sure you always behave that way.

~ Linda Alfiori

When a man cheats on his wife or girlfriend, he breaks the spell that made him once the special one.

~ Linda Alfiori

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to be miserable, because it is actually your job.

~ Linda Alfiori

Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.

~ Linda Alfiori

After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself.

~ Linda Alfiori

But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It sits there for a while. You lean toward it and then you lean away. You make lists. You calculate how much it will cost. You tote up grievances, and pluses and minuses.

~ Nora Ephron

After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

~ Linda Alfiori

Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.

~ Linda Alfiori

Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

~ Larry J. Dunlap

[Hilary] ...after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right?

~ Janice Y.k. Lee

You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.

~ Darian Wilk

She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.

~ Lauren Kate

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

~ Liane Moriarty

My father was gone. I went up to his suite, not to see him, but to figure out if he had been gone or left in a hurry. It looked like a tornado had visited so I assume he started packing as soon as he heard I was coming. I spit in his open underwear drawer. I know that’s nuts but I always try to leave a little something for the asshole on my visits.

~ Monika Basile

There’s never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.

~ Kenneth Eade

Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.

~ Kenneth Eade

The time period in question was before the proliferation of outsourcing, but there was already Craigslist as a “ready reserve” resource. I had to resolutely disregard interesting-but-unhelpful search terms with advertising of local people looking for “casual encounters” and “rants and raves.” In the possibly more helpful Craigslist category enigmatically titled “Gigs,” I typed in: Lawyer seeks help. College drop-out preferred. Long hours, pressure-cooker environment, unyielding schedule. Pays all the Ramen noodles you can eat. Great opportunity to broaden your horizons and enhance your resume!It was a truthful description of the job, and consequently, I did not expect many takers.

~ Portia Porter

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.

~ Kenneth Eade

We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.

~ Pawan Mishra