Quotes about divorce are expressions that capture the thoughts and emotions surrounding the end of a marriage. These words provide insight into the complexities and challenges that come with the dissolution of a relationship. They offer solace, encouragement, and understanding to those going through this difficult process. Divorce quotes can convey the pain and heartache experienced, as well as the resilience and strength needed to move forward and rebuild a new life.
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. — Edith Wharton
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
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy
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
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. — Monica Bellucci
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. — Samuel Butler
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
I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it — Black Thought
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford
Short Divorce Quotes
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. — John Keats
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. — Paulo Coelho
When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce. — Carl Whitaker
We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise. — Elliot Page
Human feelings are difficult to predict. — Antonio Vivaldi
The future is your property. You own it. You can do anything you want with it. — Dan Sullivan
If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever. — Cardi B
Money is not going to bring me happiness. — Eric Yuan
Divorce Image Quotes
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. — Giancarlo Esposito
Sad Divorce Quotes
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
Stop searching for happiness in the same place you lost it. Change is not dismantling the old, it’s building the new. — Brianna Wiest
The things we lose are not losses. They are entryways. They are the world saying, sometimes sharply, there is something else out there. — Brianna Wiest
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life. — Demi Moore
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. — Fred Savage
It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say. — Ricki Lake
Life is simple yet complex, in the complexity we realize everything is simple for we create our own happiness, our own sadness & our own destiny by not making a choice you have chosen so face life with courage and faith in yourself. — Bonnie Raitt
The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it. — Neko Case
I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there. — Andie MacDowell
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
Getting Divorce 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
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
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
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
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. — Stephanie Klein
Happy Divorce Quotes
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton
If you want to take the road to independence and happiness, find the right person to depend on and travel down it with that person. — Amir Levine
Walk away from anything that gives you a bad feeling. You don’t need to explain it to make sense of it. It’s your life. Do what makes you happy. — Russell Brunson
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. — Tommy Manville
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book. — Marvin Mitchelson
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
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
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness. — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
Marriage And Divorce Quotes
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. — Gabrielle Roth
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 Anderson
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
Don’t marry a girl who cannot cook, she needs to know how to do chores and cook because you cannot afford to be eating out all the time. — Enoch Adeboye
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. — Vera Brittain
The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.
And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner. — Byron Katie
The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money. — Johnny Carson
I’m a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children. — Cardi B
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. — Wallis Simpson
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option — Tom Brokaw
Getting A Divorce Quotes
Work hard do not sit back and expect a miracle – there are no “Get Rich Quick Methods” with God. — Folorunsho Alakija
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. — Joseph Campbell
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. — James Caan
Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce. — Will Smith
In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter. — John Stamos
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. — Buddy Guy
Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce. — Phyllis Diller
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
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
Going Through Divorce Quotes
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head. — David Arquette
Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet. — Robin Williams
I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief. — Molly Ivins
Why does every flight attendant seem like they are going through a divorce? — Natasha Leggero
I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me. — Ivana Trump
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. — Evan Esar
For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support. — Alana Stewart
My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful. — Jedediah Bila
Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy. — Evan Esar
Divorce Lawyers Quotes
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. — Jean Kerr
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. — Garry Trudeau
It is ironic that most guy will ‘never’ have enough time to spend with their wives, but they always have time to visit the divorce lawyer. — Corey Wayne
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. — Lucille Ball
There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo. — Didier Deschamps
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. — Hedy Lamarr
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce. — Claire Trevor
It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars — Mark Simpson
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
America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold. — Bob Hope
I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together. — Channing Tatum
Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication. — John Hope Bryant
Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two. — Esther Perel
I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says. — Eric Braeden
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers — W. Somerset Maugham
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. — Maria Bartiromo
This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit. — Betty Friedan
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. — P. J. O'Rourke
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average. — Sayings
Getting Divorced Quotes
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
Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you. — T. D. Jakes
Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense. — Axl Rose
The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce. — Cokie Roberts
I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time. — Gabrielle Union
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. — Juliette Binoche
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. — Hedy Lamarr
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall
I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married. — Seth Green
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. — Joshua Homme
Marriage Separation Quotes
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets. — David Lammy
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole. — Dada Vaswani
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. — Rodney Dangerfield
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. — Sydney Smith
I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third. — Cloris Leachman
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. — Nick Cave
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. — George Burns
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end. — Junot Diaz
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. — Rick Wright
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
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
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
The life you want, the marriage you want, the family you want… Is all going to be fueled by the business you build. — Russell Brunson
That’s why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it. — Cardi B
I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted. — Cardi B
Inspirational Divorce Quotes
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. — Shannon Alder
The best investment you can make is in your own knowledge and education. — Gautam Baid
I find that retirement savings is individual specific. There’s not one cookie-cutter answer for everybody. — Edward O. Thorp
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. — Shannon Alder
Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think. — Isaac Mashman
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. — C. S. Lewis
You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are. — Shannon Alder
Sometimes, you just have to follow your own path. — Markiplier
Don’t let anyone step on your dreams. Do your best to protect what’s important to you! — Russell Brunson
I want to go to college, definitely. If it’s possible, I want to. — Sadie Sink
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious. — Chamath Palihapitiya
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. — William P. Leahy
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. — Jack Benny
God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what! — Max Lucado
The best decisions are often made with data and evidence, not just gut feelings. — Jim Simons
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. — C. S. Lewis
Courtship is ongoing and it is NEVER going to end. — Corey Wayne
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. — Melissa Gilbert
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. — Diane Von Furstenberg
People can doubt me, and they’ll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon Alder
In Conclusion
These quotes often touch upon themes such as healing, self-discovery, and acceptance. They acknowledge the pain and loss that divorce brings, while also emphasizing the opportunity for growth and personal transformation. Divorce quotes can serve as a source of inspiration and motivation for individuals who are navigating the emotional rollercoaster of separation, providing reassurance that they are not alone in their experiences.
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