1,224 Quotes About Divorce

When you're corked...you're corked!

Grief is the emotional contract of divorce

Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.

you're not dead-you're dormant.

How do we say goodbye after all this time, you'll go your way, I'll go mine. Someday all I'll be is just a distant memory, of another place...another time" (quote taken from the book "Suicide Kills")

You're not really moving on when you jump from someone who broke your heart to a new replacement. Moving on is self reflection and being strong enough to stand on your own.

Sally wasn't crying about their dead mother or her cancer. She was crying because her husband, Alfonso, had left her after twenty years for a young woman. It seemed a brutal thing to do, just after her mastectomy. She was devastated, but no, she wouldn't ever divorce him, even though the woman was pregnant and he wanted to marry her. "They can just wait until I die. I'll be dead soon, probably next year..." Sally wept but the ocean drowned out the sound.

If divorce is like death, then is not the perpetration of divorce a kind of murder? That is, are we not risking putting ourselves through the same torment—the same sleepless nights, feelings of persecution and guilt, the regret—as one of those pathetic characters from a Dostoevsky novel? It’s like you’ve just struck your wife with a candelabra and now you’re looking at her lifeless body on the floor, and suddenly she looks pretty.

Divorce is like a death but with intent