Divorce Quotes

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison

Themselves, Wants, Generation

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
Eminem

Marriage, Family, Keep

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain

Good, Until, Childhood

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Keep, House, Taught

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire

Marriage, Same, However

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Friendship, Marriage, Soul

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball

Love, Mistakes, Born

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Through, Word, Meaning

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

Life, Marriage, Work

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

Marriage, Find, Old

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball

Life, Failure, Hate

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.
Helen Rowland

Two, Understand, Another

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce

Boundaries, Relations, Diplomatic

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.
Mignon McLaughlin

Made, Why, Hell

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Wife, Enough, Serious

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

Marriage, Good, Sympathy

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler

Church, Christ, Cruelty

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

Legal, Children, Financial

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

Women, Men, Evil

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Jim Carrey

Life, Marriage, Work

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money, Everything

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

Bad, Through, Hurts

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
Gerald F. Lieberman

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Hedy Lamarr

Girl, Pretty, Hungry

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

Good, Job, Friendly

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
Christina Aguilera

Dreams, School, Hard

Divorce is probably as painful as death.
William Shatner

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
Oliver Stone

Thinking, Through, Thought

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly Parton

Family, Through, Friends

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