Divorce Quotes

Jourdane Erasquin

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Honeya

When words lose the value... nothing is left!. Honeya
When words lose the value... nothing is left!

David Rovics

They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.

Jourdane Erasquin

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

CJ English

It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years.. CJ English
It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years.

CJ English

He was the one I compared all others to.. CJ English
He was the one I compared all others to.

CJ English

His fingerprints covered my skin.. CJ English
His fingerprints covered my skin.

Craig Ferguson

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.

I do have a knack for finding great women.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through - a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Jourdane Erasquin

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

Joyce Vissell

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

Belinda Jeffrey

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.

Suzanne Finnamore

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

C.J. English

I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by the man of my
I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by the man of my dreams.

Kate Chisman

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

Suzanne Finnamore

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

Suzan Battah

The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was something else in the depths that she hadn’t seen in a long time, passion.

C.J. English

He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

C.J. English

I needed him like I needed air to breathe.

C.J. English

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

C.J. English

I wanted the fairytale.. C.J. English
I wanted the fairytale.

Suzanne Finnamore

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

Suzanne Finnamore

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Sue Merrell

Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.

Andre Dubus

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?

Groucho Marx

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Carrie Etter

He remembers which sister
I like least and asks

how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')

Honeya

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

Stephanie Klein

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

Suzanne Finnamore

I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?

Suzanne Finnamore

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

Suzanne Finnamore

So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.

Suzanne Finnamore

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

Suzanne Finnamore

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Suzanne Finnamore

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned.

Suzanne Finnamore

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Suzanne Finnamore

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Suzanne Finnamore

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

Suzanne Finnamore

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.

"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

Suzanne Finnamore

God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

Suzanne Finnamore

Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready."
"You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet," Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man.

Suzanne Finnamore

How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not kidding," I say. "It´s Normandy out there.

Suzanne Finnamore

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

Suzanne Finnamore

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.

Suzanne Finnamore

The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s best not to try. You´ll just humiliate yourself.

Suzanne Finnamore

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Suzanne Finnamore

I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.

Suzanne Finnamore

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

Suzanne Finnamore

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

Suzanne Finnamore

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Suzanne Finnamore

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

Suzanne Finnamore

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.

Suzanne Finnamore

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.

Suzanne Finnamore

Très, très, triste...

C.J. English

We made love. Extraordinary love.

Hannah Fry

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

Donna Lynn Hope

Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you.

Chris Burkmenn

You are far too amazing to be someone's backup. You're someone's first choice.

Jacob M. Appel

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

Abiola Abrams

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

H. Kirk Rainer

I am grieved for my children - and boy’s in particular - that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how tough the situation, you still have to hang on.

Hank Moody

The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some.

Honeya

Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.

Laura Dave

Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you can’t save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.

Craig Ferguson

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

Unknown Author

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

H. Kirk Rainer

No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution - but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.

Kyle Idleman

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

Renee Smith Ettline

Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.

Anthony Liccione

Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.

Tracy H. Tucker

If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.

If I was lucky, he’d have a long cultivator.

Suzanne Finnamore

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.

Solange Nicole

There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.

Jourdane Erasquin

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences we shall have to face because of the choices we learned to embrace.

Auliq Ice

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

Shane Flynn

Isn't the human body a miracle

Jonathan Franzen

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Suzanne Finnamore

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

D. Ivan Young

Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.

Joyce Brothers

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Suzanne Finnamore

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

Suzanne Finnamore

I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.

Suzanne Finnamore

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

Suzanne Finnamore

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

Suzanne Finnamore

I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.

Suzanne Finnamore

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.

Suzanne Finnamore

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Suzanne Finnamore

It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.

Suzanne Finnamore

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

Scott F. Gandert

Morgan explained about his marriages. He had tried to sell his ex-older wife an encyclopedia years before and well, you guessed it. When she agreed to buy the books he married her on the spot. Right there in front of the M and N and the O and P, and all the rest of the applauding letters. Years later they got divorced. B and H. Boo hoo.

Suzanne Finnamore

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

Suzanne Finnamore

I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.

Suzanne Finnamore

It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....

Julie Powell

Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.

Suzanne Finnamore

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial.

Suzanne Finnamore

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

Suzanne Finnamore

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

Suzanne Finnamore

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.

John Barnes

So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

Suzanne Finnamore

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

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