Divorce Quotes - Page 25

• The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

  Stephanie Klein

  Loss, Rejection, Wrecks

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

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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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• It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Towels, Nasty

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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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• 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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• I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Cookies, Tough

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

  Peter Kreeft

  Cheating, Lying, Forever

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• A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Parent, Doe

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• People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.

  Anne Finger

  People, Mind, World

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• The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

  Steven Bochco

  Dog, Emotional, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wise, Example, Behavior

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• The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Views, Technique, Triumph

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.

  Mark Durie

  Mean, Law, Play

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

  Nora Ephron

  Way

  Nora Ephron (2011). “I Remember Nothing and other reflections”, p.205, Random House

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• Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Nice, Character, Names

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• Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships.

  Kevin Hart

  Who I Am, Understanding, Good And Bad

  "A Heart to Heart with Kevin Hart". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  Jack Black

  Love You, Parent, Facts

  "Jack Black: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.

  Brené Brown

  Real, Blow, Wire

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• My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

  Kevin Hart

  Kids, Talking, Wife

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• I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.

  Sebastian Roche

  Stronger, Better Person, Difficult Experiences

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

  Kevin Hart

  Laughing, Looks, Negative

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• That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.

  Jess Row

  Drinking, Character, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.

  Regina King

  Believe, People, Married

  "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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