Divorce Quotes - Page 17

• When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Light, People, Shining

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• Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce." She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away. "I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hands, Causes, Problem

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• This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Want, White Teeth

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.8, Vintage

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• But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

  David Foster Wallace

  Children, Loneliness, Self

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• Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

  John le Carre

  Views, Funeral, Birth

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• We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

  Terry McMillan

  Heart, Suffering, Fairy Tale

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.164, Penguin

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• Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

  John Green

  Girl, Breakup, Drama

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.174, Penguin

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• She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

  John Green

  Gun, Voice, People

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• Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fire, Guests, Down And

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Couple, Infidelity

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• Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Water, Bed

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• You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

  John Green

  Lonely, Eye, Perfection

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.50, A&C Black

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• I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Knowing, Want, Ifs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.19, A&C Black

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• She should get a divorce and settle down.

  Jack Paar

  Sarcastic, Settling, Should

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• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Art, Law

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• Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adequate, May, Sexuality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.146, Routledge

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• The beginning is always today.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Inspiring, New Beginnings, Today

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• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

  Geena Davis

  Stills, Ifs

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• The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Life, Husband

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk about some girl. Currently, I love a certain girl. I really love this girl too much. She is a person who finds happiness and joy in small things, when i'm with her, I'm always happy. She is also a person who told me how happiness felt like. Because of this, Because of this, because i love this girl too much, because i want to protect this girl...I am getting a divorce.

  Youngjae

  Girl, Drama, Joy

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• It takes two to destroy a marriage.

  Margaret Trudeau

  Two, Heartfelt, Destruction

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• To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, War, College

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• We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we're like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other - but never of divorce.

  Denis MacShane

  Couple, Thinking, Married

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• Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Criticism, Rebellion, Young

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