Divorce Quotes - Page 6

• Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

  Anna Held

  Good Friend, Littles, Matter

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• Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Cost

  Amazon Women on the Moon, www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

  Annette Funicello

  Terrified, Mere

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• There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

  Michael Douglas

  Force, Crisis, Persons

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• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  Garry Trudeau

  Spring, Thinking, Lawyer

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• In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

  Ruth Gordon

  Men, Our Family, Funny Divorce

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• Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

  Tracy Letts

  Defeat, Embarrassing, Admission

  Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.78, Theatre Communications Group

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• I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Men, Evil

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• In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Party, Memorable

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• I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.

  Lenny Clarke

  Funny, Hatred, Catholic

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• Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

  Emily Doskow

  Events, Stressful, Stressful Life

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• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Happiness, Happy, Being Yourself

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.204, Penguin

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• Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hero, Fighting, Exercise

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.296, Penguin

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• Divorce is a journey that the children involved do not ask to take. They are forced along for a ride where the results are dictated by the road their parents decide to travel.

  Diane Greene

  Children, Journey, Parent

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• There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

  Clint Eastwood

  Marriage, Single, Learning

  Investor's Business Daily, April 9, 2001.

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Hurt, Children, Say Anything

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• My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

  Christina Aguilera

  Dream, Growing Up, School

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• The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

  Eminem

  Family, Details, Sake

  "Eminem Responds to Kim's Comments on Divorce". www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2006.

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• I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce since Eve was his second wife.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Rights, Wife, Want

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Unhappy, Able

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• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Faith, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

  Dean Koontz

  Sorry, Together, Damn

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.556, Bantam

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• Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

  Evan Esar

  Play, People, Insightful

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• For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Mistake, Facts, Reason

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• My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

  Shania Twain

  Commitment, And Love, Way

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