Quotes About Divorce

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Hollywood overstates both the romance of marriage and the prevalence of divorce. Celebrities have divorce rates that are atypical and higher than most couples. I suspect that in celebrity marriages, there are huge egos on both sides and they do seem to encourage unrealistic expectations about falling in love. The problem with our romantic culture is that you can love someone you don't respect and the marriage can run out of gas with that formula. Respect is essential - not just respecting your partner but being sure your partner equally respects you.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the sight of the other; they feel romantic affection for no one else; they stretch their finances to buy a diamond ring; they marry. All is bliss-that is, for a season. Then little inconsequential activities lead to criticism. Little flaws are magnified into great torrents of faultfinding; they fall apart, they separate, and then with rancor and bitterness they divorce.

Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

Jennifer Lopez has been very much in the news because of her divorce from Marc Anthony, also a top singer, a top player in Latin music, her joining the cast of judges on "American Idol." But the music has not been at the forefront.

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

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

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.

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

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

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."

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.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

She should get a divorce and settle down.

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

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.