quotations about divorce
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
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, Son of Groucho
Grown-ups are worried that they're going to ruin their children's lives, but divorce is just a life experience and you learn from it.
EVAN STERN
Divorce Is Not the End of the World
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.
DENIS DIDEROT
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws
The snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split
For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something you always have.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Toasts & Quotes
Gone is the idea that you know where you are headed, that you know who your friends are, that you know who you are. To get divorced is to feel entirely lost on streets that you could once navigate with your eyes closed. The past feels cut off, across a divide, barely visible behind you.
TOVA MIRVIS
"From Somewhere", Boston Globe Mazazine, Sep. 28, 2013
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
LARRY GELBART
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
LEE TREVINO
attributed, Golf List Mania!
They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE
Split
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Red Wolves and Black Bears
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
You thought your little romance
Was on the strict Q.T.
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q.
Divorce me C.O.D.
MERLE TRAVIS
"Divorce Me C.O.D."
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
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE
The Women
We've put it down, we've patched it up
We both have had our say
Divorce ain't black, divorce ain't white
Just a sad ole shade of gray.
BILL ANDERSON
"Sad Old Shade of Gray"
When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Landline
My mother always said, "Don't marry for money, divorce for money."
WENDY LIEBMAN
attributed, "The Wittiest Quotes on Divorce", Psychology Today, November 16, 2012
Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease.
DOROTHY DIX
Her Book