quotations about 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 easiest way to get a divorce is to be married.
AMERICAN PROVERB
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
REBECCA WEST
attributed, Rebecca West: A Life
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
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
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
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
For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something you always have.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Toasts & Quotes
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
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
PAT ROBERTSON
The 700 Club
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
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
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
Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
E. LOCKHART
We Were Liars
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 like cutting off a gangrened arm to save the rest of the body.
DAVID KNOX & CAROLINE SCHACHT
Choices in Relationships
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 snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split