Divorce Quotes - Page 35

• Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Rip, War, Roots

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”

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• [When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

  Sybil Thorndike

  Murder, Ifs

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• During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Process

  Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.82, A&C Black

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• Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

  Rachel Cusk

  Reality, Might, Ability

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Eight, Hair

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• Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Memories, Loneliness

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

  Donna Ball

  Simple, Compromise, Faithfulness

  Donna Ball (1997). “Just Before Dawn”, Signet

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• I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Winter, World, Kim

  "Gottfried: Jonathan Winters was mad brilliant" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

  Drew Fuller

  Waiting, Important, Want

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Enthusiasm, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.

  Ivana Trump

  Men, Energy, Way

  "Ivana Trump's Make-Under" by Phoebe Eaton, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2009.

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• 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

  Loyalty, Grief, People

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• People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

  John Mortimer

  Thinking, People, Trouble

  "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, January 16, 2009.

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• Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

  Evan Esar

  Cry, Easy

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• An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

  Evan Esar

  Wit, Wit And Wisdom, Epigrams

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Simple, Opposites, Events

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

  Tony Robbins

  Kids, Love Of My Life, Perspective

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.

  Nujood Ali

  Dream, Memories, Evil

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.129, Broadway Books

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• Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Husband, Law, Total Equality

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• 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

  Couple, Men, Feet

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

  William Carlos Williams

  Our Time

  1946 Paterson, bk.1,'The Delineaments of the Giants', 2.

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• People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Stills, Absorbing

  "Male and Female". Book by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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