Divorce Quotes - Page 8

• The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Money, Husband

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• She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

  Priscilla Presley

  Memphis

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• There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Cynical, Firsts

  News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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• The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

  Danica McKellar

  Pain, Sound, Events

  "Danica McKellar Compares Divorce to a Death in the Family" by Marla Lehner, people.com. June 8, 2012.

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• The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

  Yip Harburg

  Romance, Phrases, Parks

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• My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Home, Gun

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Funny, Witty, Falling In Love

  "Freedom". Book by Jonathan Franzen, 2010.

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• Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.

  Evan Esar

  Husband, Ifs, Happy Divorce

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• It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

  Oscar Wilde

  Broken, Bondage, Break

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Literature, Quests

  A Guide to Men "Divorces" (1922)

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• Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Heartfelt, Tragedy, Cash

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• Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

  Margo Kaufman

  Tests, Excellent, Remarriage

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• What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Space, Vehemence, Killers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Party, Selfishness, Results

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

  Helen Rowland

  America, Literature, World

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.26, Litres

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• I'd like to give divorce a good name.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Names, Giving, Literature

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• When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Heartbreak, Love Is, Ends

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

  Erica Jong

  Age, Generations, Ceremony

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.165, Penguin

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• Love dies because its birth was an error.

  Susan Sontag

  Errors, Birth, Dies

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• Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Track, Horrible, Brutal

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• A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Explosions, Controlled

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• I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

  Helen Fisher

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

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• Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

  Garrison Keillor

  Expensive, Worth It

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• The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

  Carol Vorderman

  Regret, Thinking, Should Have

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• There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

  Mike Huckabee

  America, Car, Easier

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