156 Happy Divorce Quotes

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Famous Happy Divorce Quotes

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage — Sumner Redstone

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

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

Divorce is a game played by lawyers. — Cary Grant

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

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee

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

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

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. — H. L. Mencken

Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. — Rumi

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

Short Happy Divorce Quotes

  • The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
  • You never really know a man until you have divorced him. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried. — Claudia Cardinale
  • The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henny Youngman
  • Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams
  • Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy
  • The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. — Colin Chapman
  • Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas

Happy Divorce Image Quotes

Happy divorce quote Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

Happy 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

Happy divorce quote Never regret anything that made you smile.
Never regret anything that made you smile.

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

Happy divorce quote The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

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

Divorce Day Quotes

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

The day you marry your dreams is the day you divorce your nightmares. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Happy divorce quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

It might hurt now but one day you’ll look back and realize that it changed your life for the better. — Russell Brunson

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition. — Shelley Winters

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. — Ellen Goodman

Happy divorce quote Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently. — Steve Carell

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. — Gloria Swanson

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments. — C. S. Lewis

The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are. — Ernie J Zelinski

Inspirational Divorce 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

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. - Paulo Coelho

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. — Paulo Coelho

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

Happy divorce quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton

The best investment you can make is in your own knowledge and education. — Gautam Baid

Happy divorce quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

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

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

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

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

Happy divorce quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

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

Happy divorce quote Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.

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

Getting A Divorce Quotes

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

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

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

Happy divorce quote Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.

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

Happy divorce quote Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

After Divorce Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Being Divorced Quotes

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

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

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 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

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

I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted. — Cardi B

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

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

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

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

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. — John Keats

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

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

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

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

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

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More Happy Divorce Quotes

Money is not going to bring me happiness. — Eric Yuan

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

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. — Rachel Uchitel

Stop searching for happiness in the same place you lost it. Change is not dismantling the old, it’s building the new. — Brianna Wiest

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

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

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

"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

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore. — Sarah Dessen

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

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them. — Ruth Gordon

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. — Michael Hutchence

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. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. — Paulo Coelho

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying. — Elsie Clews Parsons

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

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

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. — William Faulkner

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. — Emily Doskow

Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving. — Pat Robertson

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. — John Irving

Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for. — Tina Barney

This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead! — M. E. W. Sherwood

I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours. — Gabrielle Union

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] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . . — Edward Gibbon

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