quotations about divorce
The real wonder is that anyone stays together, as impossible to live with and as broken as we all are.
KYRAN PITTMAN
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
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
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
Divorce is like cutting off a gangrened arm to save the rest of the body.
DAVID KNOX & CAROLINE SCHACHT
Choices in Relationships
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
ELSIE CLEW PARSONS
Fear and Conventionality
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
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
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
JOHN IRVING
A Widow for One Year
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
Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along with you.
MARK GUNGOR
Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
I pay my alimony on the button. I'm afraid that if I don't, my ex-wife will repossess me!
MILTON BERLE
Milton Berle's Private Joke File
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
I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.
LENNY CLARKE
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
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 snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
PAT ROBERTSON
The 700 Club
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
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
There is a rumor that seven states are considering overpruning as a cause for divorce, second only to incompatibility and adultery. I hope our state is one of them. No judge would dare deny me freedom after he heard the story of my privet hedge.
ERMA BOMBECK
Forever
A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you.
JIMMY FALLON
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jan. 4, 2012