Divorced Quotes

• Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

  Pat Conroy

  Marriage, Divorce, Civilization

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• 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, Sympathy, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

  Elinor Glyn

  Husband, Divorce, Wife

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• Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

  Tracy Letts

  Divorce, Defeat, Embarrassing

  Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.78, Theatre Communications Group

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• Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Divorce, Causes, Chiefs

  "M*A*S*H. Season 3. Bulletin Board". TV Series,

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• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Divorce, Shoes

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.519, Modern Library

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Washington Irving

  Grieving, Funeral, Bereavement

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Funny, Witty, Divorce

  "Fictional character: Maj. Frank Burns". TV Series "M*A*S*H", 1972-1983.

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• I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

  Beth Henley

  Wretchedness, My Own

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

  Danica McKellar

  Pain, Divorce, Sound

  "Danica McKellar Compares Divorce to a Death in the Family" by Marla Lehner, people.com. June 8, 2012.

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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, Divorce, Men

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

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• They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

  Suze Orman

  Half, Married, Window

  "Baby boomers or bums?" by Helyn Trickey, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2006.

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• When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

  Nicole Richie

  Mom, Dad, Leaving

  "Lionel Richie and Daughter Nicole on Fame, Drugs and Divorce". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, May 21, 2004.

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• Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

  Joan Rivers

  Breakup, Divorce, Insightful

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Divorce, Firsts, Life Is

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• In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

  Ruth Gordon

  Divorce, Men, Our Family

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• What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

  Stephanie Klein

  Relationship, Divorce, Waiting

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2015

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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• The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Karma, Thinking, Imagination

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Divorce, Vow

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• Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

  Bob Hastings

  Positive, Regret, Divorce

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• A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Divorce, Expression, Personality

  Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Leadership, Technique, Ethics

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• Conrad Hilton was very generous in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Divorce, Gideon, Settlement

  "10 bizarre divorce settlements" by Ethan Trex, edition.cnn.com. January 04, 2010.

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• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

  Denis Diderot

  Divorce, Population, Literature

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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