120 After Divorce Quotes

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Famous After Divorce Quotes

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. — Jean Kerr

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage — Sumner Redstone

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. — Nora Ephron

Divorce is a game played by lawyers. — Cary Grant

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. - Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood

You never really know a man until you have divorced him. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out. — Rich Vos

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. — Melissa Etheridge

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce. — Carl Whitaker

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

I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it — Black Thought

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. — Edith Wharton

It is easy to get divorced for a bachelor. — Turkish Proverbs

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy

Short After Divorce Quotes

  • I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in. — Phyllis Diller
  • To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. — James Caan
  • When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. — Dennis Quaid
  • You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children. — George Foreman
  • Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford
  • A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Woody Allen
  • A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Jim Samuels
  • Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams

Love After Divorce Quotes

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands. — Fannie Hurst

My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right? — Shania Twain

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. — Tertullian

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life! — David Gray

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving. — Gregory David Roberts

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after. — Lisa Scottoline

Happiness After Divorce Quotes

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

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. — Tommy Manville

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book. — Marvin Mitchelson

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat. — Tracy Letts

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches. — Evan Esar

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor. — Warren Farrell

Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy. — Evan Esar

Life After Divorce Quotes

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible. — Priscilla Presley

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. — Ricky Skaggs

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult. — Bianca Jagger

Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship. — Tim Matheson

I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again. — Jenna Fischer

Being Divorced Quotes

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. — Fulton J. Sheen

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. — C. S. Lewis

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. — Axl Rose

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. — Gustav Stresemann

If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong. — Mary Edwards Walker

When people find out how strong and powerful love is, then this world will be a better place. I want to see this happen one day. — Amanda Nunes

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman. — Diane Von Furstenberg

If you buy a car with money you didn’t earn lawfully, you’ll be riding in a moving coffin. — Enoch Adeboye

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. — Monica Bellucci

Getting Divorced Quotes

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it. — Merle Haggard

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Let me tell you clearly if you get a wife through the Facebook, you would lose her through the Youtube. — Enoch Adeboye

You have to go into relationship not with what you can get out of it, but with what you can put into it. — Corey Wayne

If you are going out on a date with an expectation of having sex, go get a hooker. — Corey Wayne

Don’t get married to the idea of something having to be one way. — Hannah Bronfman

My career is not finished, I cannot say that now. There is work to be done. I hope to progress and get better, win a maximum number of titles. Right now, I am not where I want to be. — Paul Pogba

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. — Stephanie Klein

Work hard do not sit back and expect a miracle – there are no “Get Rich Quick Methods” with God. — Folorunsho Alakija

Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty. — John Hagee

I Am Divorced Quotes

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg. — Myrna Loy

As I am going to be a father, I can no longer walk with a crest, nor with white hair. It will be a girl and when I see, you’re going to be scared. — Antoine Griezmann

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. — Ben Affleck

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. — Mickey Rooney

I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces. — Madonna Ciccone

I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another. — Kitty Kelley

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short. — Mickey Rooney

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about? — May Sarton

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces. — Boy George

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? — Marilyn Monroe

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More After Divorce Quotes

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. — Larry Gelbart

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. — Gary Chapman

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. — Groucho Marx

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing. — Farah Diba

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him. — Priscilla Presley

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house. — Willie Pep

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music. — Gwen Stefani

Winning isn't the end of the world — David Pleat

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me. — Sebastian Junger

[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art. — Tertullian

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it. — Mary Blakely

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been. — Bruce H. Lipton

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere — Julius Caesar

Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner. — Jay Leno

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. — Lois Lowry

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels. — Nicole Kidman

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. — Evan Esar

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand. — Jay Leno

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot. — Nancy Kress

Divorce: fission after fusion. — Rita Mae Brown

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting. — Kato Kaelin

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another. — Fred Rogers

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages. — Hoda Kotb

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. — Ariel Gore

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce. — Dan Dailey

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. — Larry Gelbart

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