Divorce famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'
-- Adele -
In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
-- Agnes Bruckner -
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.
-- Al Goldstein -
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
-- Alan Brennert -
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
-- Alana Stewart -
Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.
-- Alana Stewart -
For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.
-- Alana Stewart -
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
-- Albert Camus -
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
-- Albert Camus -
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
-- Albert Camus -
Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3).
-- Albert Martin -
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.
-- Alex Garland -
I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.
-- Alice Steinbach -
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
-- Allan Sherman -
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
-- Anna Held -
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
-- Anne Heche -
There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.
-- Anne Roiphe -
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
-- Annette Funicello -
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
-- Anthony Burgess -
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
-- Ariel Gore -
The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
-- Arthur Golden -
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
-- Basmah bint Saud -
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
-- Ben Affleck -
People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.
-- Benjamin Walker -
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.
-- Bess Myerson -
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 -
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
-- Betty Rollin -
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 -
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.
-- Bil Keane -
I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.
-- Billy Ray Cyrus -
Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
-- Bjork -
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
-- Bob Geldof -
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
-- Bob Geldof -
Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
-- Bob Hastings -
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
-- Boy George -
Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
-- Boy George -
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.
-- Brandi Carlile -
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 -
The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.
-- Byron Katie -
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
-- Canibus -
When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
-- Carl Whitaker -
The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
-- Carol Vorderman -
I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.
-- Carolyn Green -
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.
-- Channing Tatum -
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
-- Charles Simic -
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
-- Charlton Laird -
Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.
-- Cheryl Cole -
I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
-- Christina Aguilera -
No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
-- Christina Stead -
The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
I lost 28 pounds in my divorce…because that's what a soul weighs.
-- Christopher Titus -
The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'
-- Christopher West -
Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.
-- Chuck Eddy -
If either person isn't 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren't ready to enter into it. That's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high. People are entering into the commitment they're making without having the strength of character, fortitude, and resolve to keep the promises they're making to each other and also to God. God cares VERY MUCH that we keep our marital promises -He enters into the marriage with you whenever you marry so your promises aren't only to each other but also to Him.
-- Cindy Wright -
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
-- Claire Trevor -
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.
-- Claud Cockburn -
Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights." "Divorce?" Despite myself, I laughed. Only Vic could call the aftermath of a bad first date a divorce. We hadn't exactly been friends beforehand, so "still" was an exaggeration, but it would've been mean to point that out. Besides, I liked Vic. "We're still friends." "Excellent. The weirdos have to stick together around here." "Are you calling me a weirdo?" "Highest honor I can bestow.
-- Claudia Gray -
That’s a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? That’s like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware -- she took the dog, too. (Harvick) didn’t get the animal, I would say.
-- Clint Bowyer -
The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.
-- Cokie Roberts -
Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.
-- Connie Britton -
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 -
I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person.
-- Cynthia Lennon -
I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
-- Dale Archer -
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.
-- Dally Messenger -
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.
-- Dan Barker -
In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
-- Dan Dailey -
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
-- Dan Savage -
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.
-- Dana Stabenow -
The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.
-- Danica McKellar -
As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.
-- Daniel De Leon -
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
-- Daphne Guinness -
Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.
-- Dave Mordal -
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.
-- David Arquette -
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
-- David Byrne -
If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.
-- David Ginola -
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
-- Dawn French -
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
-- Dean Koontz -
I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.
-- Debbie Reynolds -
There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.
-- Delia Ephron -
Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.
-- Demi Moore -
We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we're like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other - but never of divorce.
-- Denis MacShane
