Divorce Quotes

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. (Margaret Atwood)
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. View quote
Helen Rowland
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. View quote
Norman Mailer
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. View quote
Edith Wharton
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. View quote
Jim Morrison
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. View quote
Denis Diderot
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
I guess the only way to stop divorce Is to stop marriage. View quote
Will Rogers
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. View quote
Voltaire
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)
Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world. View quote
John Denver
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. View quote
Voltaire
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children. View quote
Isla Fisher
When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option. View quote
Kelly Rowland
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. View quote
Al Goldstein
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. View quote
Douglas J. Feith
At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting. View quote
Kato Kaelin
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)
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. View quote
Mary Wesley
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped. View quote
Timothy Murphy
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish. View quote
Vince Gill
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. View quote
Groucho Marx