surviving divorce quotes
- “Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.” – Austin Elliot
2. “I was a high-functioning depressive, seemingly pulled together and buttoned down. But inside deep, I was numb and mute. Now on the other side of divorce, I know that was me fragmented and doing my best to cope. But my body knew.”-Liza Caldwell
3. “Divorce, a bugle blast that separates the combatants and makes them fight at long range.” –Ambrose Bierce
4. “It always gets worse before it can get better. But it will get better. Like everything else, and like our past struggles, at some point we win, but before that win, there’s always that loss that spurs us on.”-Dolores Huerta
5. “Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.”-Amy Poehler
6. “Although marriages traditionally begin with I do, when they fail, they invariably end with You don’t.” – Judith Viorst
7. “If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.” – Magnon McLaughlin
8. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”-Shannon L. Alder
9. “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”-Stephanie Klein
10. “Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”- E. Lockhart
Healing From Divorce Quotes
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”-Lena Horne
2. “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”-C. Joybell C.
3. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”— Carrie Fisher
4. “Divorce is not the end of the world. It’s worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That’s a worse example for the children.” – Jerry Hall
5. “Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”-Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. “Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!” – Larry David
7. “To live, to err, to triumph, to re-create life out of life!” – James Joyce
8. “Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.” – Sumner Redstone
9. “Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.” – T. S. Eliot
10. “It’s better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington
divorce quotes funny
- “Divorces are made in heaven.”– Oscar Wilde
2. “To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.” – James Caan
3. “He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.”– ZsaZsa Gabor
4. “I’d marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he’d be dead in a year.”
– Bette Davis
5. “Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.”
– Shinichi Suzuki
6. “Take this marriage thing seriously – it has to last all the way to the divorce.”-Roseanne Barr
7. “Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”– Groucho Marx
8. “Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”-Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. “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
10. “Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.”-Joan Rivers
11. “My mother always said don’t marry for money, divorce for money.”-Wendy Liebman
sad divorce quotes
- “Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.”-Rita Mae Brown
2. “When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.”-Monica Bellucci
3. “The process of discovering with somebody that you love that you don’t work is so painful.”– Kate Hudson
4. “A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.” – Margaret Atwood
5. “It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the [one before], and pretty soon we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.”– Ricki Lake
6. “There’s no pain or failure like going through a divorce.”– Jennifer Lopez
7. “Divorce is always terrible, but I haven’t met anyone who went through it and isn’t happier now.” – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
8. “For a lot of people, divorce is an incredibly healthy move to make in your life.” – Adam Scott
9. “Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.”– Gerald F. Lieberman
10. “We cannot change the past, but we can start a new chapter with a happy ending.” –Nishan Panwar
love after divorce quotes
- “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”– Deborah Reber
2. “When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to.”– Helen Rowland
3. “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
4. “I wanted to turn my divorce into a positive. What if I didn’t blame the other person for anything, and held myself 100 percent accountable? What if I checked my own s— at the door and put my children first? And reminded myself about the things about my ex-husband that I love, and fostered the friendship?”– Gwyneth Paltrow
5. “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”– Jennifer Weiner
6. “The good thing about getting divorced young—if there is a good thing—is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life. It blasts you wide open and frees you to be honest with yourself.”– Olivia Wilde
7. “Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”-Mary Kay Blakely
divorce quotes for him
- “Ah, yes, divorce from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” – Robin Williams
2. “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – Oscar Wilde
3. “Divorce sets off a tidal wave of changes – physical, mental, emotional, social, and existential.” – Karen Finn
4. “Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony of money, and divorce a matter of course.” – Helen Rowland
5. “Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.” – Robert H. Schuller
6. “With divorce.. you’re not dead – you’re dormant.” – Cheryl Nielsen
7. “Lies don’t end relationships, the truth does.” – Shannon L. Alder
8. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s future.”– Daphne Rose Kingma
divorce quotes for her
- “You never really know a man until you have divorced him.”-Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. “I married Miss Right. I just didn’t know her first name was Always.”-Red Skelton
3. “I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.” – Woody Allen
4. “She cried and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.” – Tommy Manville
5. “Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.” –Mokokoma Mokhonoana
6. “When I got divorced, it was group sex. My wife screwed me in front of the jury.” – Rodney Dangerfield
7. “Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.” – Ambrose Bierce
8. “At the end of your marriage, your job, at least in part, is to let go and move away from the wreckage to create something better.” – Karen Finn
9. “We don’t have the power to change the facts of divorce, but divorce definitely gives us the power to change ourselves.” – Karen Finn
10. “Just another of our many disagreements. He wants a no-fault divorce, whereas I would prefer to have the bastard crucified.” – J. B. Handelsman
11. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale
divorce message to the husband
- “Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.” – Jean Kerr
2. “When I divorced I went through the various stages of grieving: anger, denial, and dancing around with my settlement check.” –Maura Kennedy
3. “To be fair, in most divorces the house is split evenly. The women get the inside, the men get the outside.” – Bruce Force
4. “You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.” – Ellen Goodman
5. “Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That’s scary. If the smartest guy in the world can’t figure out women, we’re screwed.” – Jay Leno
6. “Divorce isn’t always the best answer. And sometimes it’s the only answer.” – Karen Finn
7. “I never even believed in divorce until after I got married.” – Diane Ford
8. “It is never too late to become what you might have been.” – George Eliot
9. “I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.” – Alana Stewart
10. “I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages.” – Helen Fisher
11. “I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.” – Priscilla Presley
husband and wife divorce quotes
- “A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.”– Jean Kerr
2. “You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings, even the truth.” – Dave Barry
3. “The happiest time of anyone’s life is just after the first divorce.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
4. “Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.”– Jonathan Franzen
5. “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”– Kate Chisman
6. “Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.”– Suzanne Finnamore
7. “It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”– Michael Bassey Johnson
8. “My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”– Gillian Flynn
9. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”– Taylor Jenkins Reid
10. “A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.”– Suzanne Finnamore
words of encouragement for a divorced woman
- “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”– Shannon L. Alder
2. “Don’t have regrets. You can learn something from every experience.”– Ellen Degeneres
3. “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.”– Michelle Obama
4. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”– Toni Morrison
5. “I used to hope that you’d bring me flowers. Now I plant my own.”– Rachel Wolchin
6. “I learned that it would take more than just the black and white steps of getting divorced, or even finding a lawyer. It would take NOT just facing my fears. It would take walking into my fears — with each step making me bolder and less ashamed, with each step giving me courage.”– Liza Caldwell
7. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”– Elizabeth Gilbert
8. “Above all be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”– Nora Ephron
9. “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.”– Eda LeShan
10. “It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain” – Jennifer Aniston
