Divorce Quotes

Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.

~ Lisa Thomson

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

~ James Salter

Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I like marriage, family life and I wish to get married again. But opting out of an unhappy marriage was a duty toward myself & my future.

~ Rossana Condoleo

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

~ Rossana Condoleo

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

~ Agatha Christie

Life - with or without softener- is hard

~ Kate Papas

A divorce party--that's really better than a wedding party!

~ Nujood Ali

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

~ Neil S. Plakcy

how many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already?

~ Justina Chen

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimismwere more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It washard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep thepast itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

~ Lionel Shriver

The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician had whisked a cloth off the table, leaving the dishes there, jolted. And when we looked back it was all a blur, time on fast forward, hurtling to an inevitable conclusion.

~ Kathryn Stern

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.

~ J. Robert Moskin

Hold the bottle up to the light, you will see your dreams are always at the bottom.

~ Rob Hutchison

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.

~ Cheryl Nielsen

I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.

~ Emily Giffin

There are two things you should never do alone: one is get divorced, the other is drink.

~ Cheryl Nielsen

Maude regards the ones who don't make it as her own personal failures. I guess I didn't put enough emphasis on 'until death do you part,' she says sourly, whenever she hears about the latest divorce. Sad to say, but some are in it just for the good times. Married folks, they gotta be like that cat's claw acacia I've got growin' in my yard. Gotta grab hard and hold on tight when the going gets rough. Only way to get through the bad times. Grab hard, hold on, and ride. No matter what.

~ Susan Wittig Albert

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

~ Dean Koontz

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

~ Paulo Coelho

You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

~ Tom Mcneal

Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.

~ Amy Stolls

I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up.

~ Tracy H. Tucker

What's the truth? The truth is what happened to you and him or her, over the years, and what didn't happen. The truth is what you said and didn't say, how much you tried, how you changed, and whether you were lucky. I believe in luck. I think luck plays a huge part in success. Or failure. In the end, who cares about the truth? You still end up divorced. Finally, the biggest asshole wins. Sort of. At least the biggest asshole takes home the must stuff. If you consider this winning then have at it. You're an asshole.

~ Margaret Overton

Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault

~ Louis N. Jones

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

~ Osho

I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.

~ Sharon Stone

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

~ Mike Birbiglia

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

~ Olga Kurylenko

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

~ Michael Crawford

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

~ Nancy Gibbs

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

~ Eminem

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

~ Michael Douglas

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

~ Germaine Greer

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

~ Gerald F. Lieberman

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

~ Caitlin Flanagan

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

~ Richard Wagner

I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.

~ Khloe Kardashian

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

~ Voltaire