1,224 Quotes About Divorce


  • Author Merle Shain
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    No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

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  • Author Mona Simpson
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    It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

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  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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  • Author Steven Spielberg
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    I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

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  • Author Sylvester Stallone
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    Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

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  • Author Wallis Simpson
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    There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

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