Divorce Quotes
Jourdane Erasquin
I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.
2980 Honeya
When words lose the value... nothing is left!
4253 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.
2323 Jourdane Erasquin
If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.
4754 CJ English
It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years.
1312 CJ English
He was the one I compared all others to.
1501 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.
3495 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.
2941 Jourdane Erasquin
There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.
1370 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.
1392 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.
3756 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.
2018 C.J. English
I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by the man of my dreams.
3639 Kate Chisman
We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.
4340 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.
1324 C.J. English
He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.
2762 C.J. English
It was impossible not to fall in love with him.
3078 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.
4033 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.
4193 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?
2521 Groucho Marx
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
3460 Carrie Etter
He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
3277 Honeya
Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.
1559 Stephanie Klein
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.
4503 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?
2833 Suzanne Finnamore
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
4113 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.
3559 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.
2928 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.
1034 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.
1879 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.
3272 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.
1491 Suzanne Finnamore
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
1568 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.
2457 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.
2452 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.
2419 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.
1478 Suzanne Finnamore
I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.
1649 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.
4558 Suzanne Finnamore
I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.
4085 Suzanne Finnamore
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
2712 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.
1868 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.
4889 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.
4598 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.
4612 Chris Burkmenn
You are far too amazing to be someone's backup. You're someone's first choice.
4293 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.
2181 Abiola Abrams
If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.
2945 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”.
4091 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.
2703 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.
4009 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.
3682 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.
1669 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.
4887 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.
1680 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.
3084 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.
4267 Anthony Liccione
Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.
4212 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.
4847 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.
3699 Solange Nicole
There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.
1184 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.
2916 Auliq Ice
When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.
4786 Jonathan Franzen
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
2476 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.
3309 Joyce Brothers
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
2053 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.
1848 Suzanne Finnamore
He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.
3003 Suzanne Finnamore
Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.
3877 Suzanne Finnamore
I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.
1327 Suzanne Finnamore
I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.
1815 Suzanne Finnamore
Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.
3620 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.
4647 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.
4069 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.
1193 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.
3476 Suzanne Finnamore
It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....
2510 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.
4990 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.
2594 Suzanne Finnamore
I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.
2068 Suzanne Finnamore
The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.
4765 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.
3434 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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