quotations about divorce
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
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jan. 4, 2012
I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility.
ROBERT DYKSTRA
She Never Said Goodbye
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
Fly Away Home
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
REBECCA WEST
attributed, Rebecca West: A Life
I pay my alimony on the button. I'm afraid that if I don't, my ex-wife will repossess me!
MILTON BERLE
Milton Berle's Private Joke File
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
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.
JO COUDERT
Advice from a Failure
First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it's important that first marriages go wrong. That's how we learn the truth about ourselves.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People
The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
There is a rumor that seven states are considering overpruning as a cause for divorce, second only to incompatibility and adultery. I hope our state is one of them. No judge would dare deny me freedom after he heard the story of my privet hedge.
ERMA BOMBECK
Forever
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
ELSIE CLEW PARSONS
Fear and Conventionality
The best advice I have for other parents going through a divorce is that the kids need to know that both of their parents are good people. It's easy to set the example of kindness and love and respect when the things are good. So if you can do that when things are hard, and wholeheartedly support their relationship with the other parent--you're showing them a certain kind of resiliency.
BRADLY WHITFORD
Good Housekeeping, Jul. 2010
The springtime of divorce is like that, as well. Everything isn't rosy and put in place yet. Nor have all the shadows and snows of the dark winter days disappeared. But there are signs that things are changing: a new time of warmth is just ahead.
RICHARD D. CROOKS
Finding God in the Seasons of Divorce
I've been through divorce and will always be a "divorced kid".... For me, my parent's divorce was hard at first, but I overcame my sadness and my fears about it. I know that my parents are happier apart. And I'm happy with the way things are, too.... Divorce can sometimes be for the better. You may end up with happier parents, and you will definitely learn a lot about yourself! And that's the whole point of growing up. So if you think about it, there are reasons to be happy about this experience, if you can learn and grow from it.
ZOE STERN
Divorce Is Not the End of the World
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho
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
American on Purpose
Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
Divorce is a failed challenge, which leads to a broken life. It is a socially transmittable disease that can transfer from one generation to another, and it is spreading fast.
SIA F. DEAN
Divorce Is Not an Answer
The real wonder is that anyone stays together, as impossible to live with and as broken as we all are.
KYRAN PITTMAN
Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Divorce is like cutting off a gangrened arm to save the rest of the body.
DAVID KNOX & CAROLINE SCHACHT
Choices in Relationships