Divorce Quotes - Page 35

• Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Rip, War, Roots

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”

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• [When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

  Sybil Thorndike

  Murder, Ifs

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• During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Process

  Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.82, A&C Black

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• Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

  Rachel Cusk

  Reality, Might, Ability

  "Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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• It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Eight, Hair

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• Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Memories, Loneliness

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

  Donna Ball

  Simple, Compromise, Faithfulness

  Donna Ball (1997). “Just Before Dawn”, Signet

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• I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Winter, World, Kim

  "Gottfried: Jonathan Winters was mad brilliant" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

  Drew Fuller

  Waiting, Important, Want

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

  Anthony Burgess

  America, Auras, England

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

  Ann Landers

  Funny Marriage, Needs, Way

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• I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

  Will Rogers

  Marriage, Looks, Cost

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.

  Buddy Guy

  Baseball, Guitar, Years

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• You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Needs, Reason

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• Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Children, Hatred, Parent

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Might, Responsible

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

  David Ginola

  Wife, Worry, Managers

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• I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Way, Lawyer, Born

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• Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Powerful, Husband, Agreement

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Enthusiasm, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.

  Ivana Trump

  Men, Energy, Way

  "Ivana Trump's Make-Under" by Phoebe Eaton, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2009.

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• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  Dally Messenger

  Loyalty, Grief, People

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• People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

  John Mortimer

  Thinking, People, Trouble

  "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, January 16, 2009.

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