Divorce Quotes - Page 16

• It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mom, Children, Tough

  "People in the News" with Paul Zahn, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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• The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

  Fannie Hurst

  Army, Men, Hands

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• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Car, Going Away

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Cookies, Fit, Cutters

  "Skier Lindsey Vonn reveals battle with depression" by Scott Stump and Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

  Bernie Siegel

  Baby, Anger, Love You

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• Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

  Dorothy Parker

  Husband, Land, Feet

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• In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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• I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Rejection, Feels, Ultimate

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• It was a sh*t sandwich.

  Kris Humphries

  Sandwiches

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• 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

  Caring, Men, Worry

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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Epidemics, Luck

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• God hates divorce-always, forever, regardless, without exception.

  Michael Pearl

  Hate, Forever, Exception

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• The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Elements, Absurd

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

  C.D. Payne

  Children, Dad, Kids

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Wife, Advice

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

  John Denver

  World, Awful

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• She should get a divorce and settle down.

  Jack Paar

  Sarcastic, Settling, Should

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• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Art, Law

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• Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adequate, May, Sexuality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.146, Routledge

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• The beginning is always today.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Inspiring, New Beginnings, Today

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• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

  Geena Davis

  Stills, Ifs

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• The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Life, Husband

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

  Kim Kardashian

  Fairy Tale, Fairy, Tales

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• Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Meaningful, Dream, Falling In Love

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