quotations about divorce
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
ZSA ZSA GABOR
How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
attributed, And I Quote
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
Absalom
Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are even in its class, difficulty-wise--and divorcing generally involves both of those as well. Even when you are the one initiating the divorce, the enormous changes that result are bound to throw you off and leave you feeling, at the very least, a bit lost.
EMILY DOSKOW
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
My husband and I have never considered divorce ... murder, sometimes, but never divorce.
DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
attributed, 1001 Ways NOT to be Romantic
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
TERTULLIAN
Apologeticus
The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.
JOHNNY CARSON
attributed, Men Are Lunatics, Women Are Nuts!
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.
WILLIAM SHATNER
Up Till Now
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Time Magazine, Mar. 19, 1973
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
Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.
WARREN FARRELL
foreword, Make Any Divorce Better
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Superstition of Divorce
Unhappy as it may make you in the short term, 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.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.
GLORIA SWANSON
New York Times, Mar. 10, 1979
A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.
JIMMY FALLON
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Aug. 30, 2011
For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a “solution” to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.
FRED ROGERS
Mister Rogers Talks With Parents
Divorce is the future tense of marriage.
MILTON BERLE
Milton Berle's Private Joke File
I don't think I'll get married again; I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
LEWIS GRIZZARD
attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
When he got a divorce, he and his wife split the house. He got the outside.
MILTON BERLE
Milton Berle's Private Joke File
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony