80 Great Divorce Quotes
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Famous Great Divorce Quotes
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. — John Keats
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage — Sumner Redstone
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. — Edith Wharton
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
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
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. — Nora Ephron
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams
Divorce is a game played by lawyers. — Cary Grant
Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot. — Immortal Technique
Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back — Buddhadasa
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. — Garry Trudeau
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole
I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it — Black Thought
Short Great Divorce Quotes
- The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet. — Thomas Brooks
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- When the devil grows old he turns hermit. — Ludovico Ariosto
- [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat
- Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- [Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova
- Whether your destination is heaven or hell, you always have to change planes in Dallas. — Kinky Friedman
- Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain
- Death is just life's next big adventure. — J. K. Rowling
- It is easy to get divorced for a bachelor. — Turkish Proverbs
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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
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
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
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee
Debt is never bad. What one does with it determines the goodness or the badness of the debt. — Thomas Phelps
There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. — C. S. Lewis
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. — C. S. Lewis
It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
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
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. — Shannon Hale
People Writing About Great Divorce
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 John Keats |
355 | 3505 |
 Pat Conroy |
166 | 1901 |
 Mary Blakely |
41 | 198 |
 Sumner Redstone |
27 | 504 |
 Edith Wharton |
244 | 1627 |
 Samuel Butler |
266 | 1844 |
More Great Divorce Quotes
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
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
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
I’ve been in relationships in the past where communication wasn’t great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other. — Hannah Bronfman
This moment contains all moments. — C. S. Lewis
Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community. — M. Scott Peck
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. — C. S. Lewis
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. — C. S. Lewis
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. — C. S. Lewis
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite. — Bob Dylan
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. — C. S. Lewis
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C. S. Lewis
"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..." — C. S. Lewis
All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house. — Willie Pep
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
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains. — C. S. Lewis
Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. — C. S. Lewis
No people find each other more absurd than lovers — C. S. Lewis
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? — C. S. Lewis
We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack, and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith. — Russell M. Nelson
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. — C. S. Lewis
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. — C. S. Lewis
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Twain
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not. — C. S. Lewis
I used to say to my dad, 'How did you and Mom stay married for all this time?' and he'd say, 'Two things. Number one: You gotta have the same dreams. One person can't be daydreaming about walking down the street in Paris, the other person want to work in a coal mine. Number two: We never wanted to get divorced at the same time.' — Gwyneth Paltrow
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself. — C. S. Lewis
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. — C. S. Lewis
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked. — Lisa Kleypas
I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with. — Mark Ruffalo
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. — C. S. Lewis
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see. — C. S. Lewis
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. — C. S. Lewis
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. — C. S. Lewis
No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven. — Sayings
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. — C. S. Lewis
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'. — C. S. Lewis
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it. — C. S. Lewis
And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good. — C. S. Lewis
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. — C. S. Lewis
No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather! — George Macdonald
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