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
Special Happy Divorce quotations
When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.
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.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.
A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
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.
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.
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.
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.
"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..."
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.
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
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.
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.
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or her companion, there would be very little, if any, divorce. Argument would never be heard. Accusations would never be leveled. Angry explosions would not occur. Rather, love and concern would replace abuse and meanness.
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.
I was very happy in both my marriages.
I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.