quotations about divorce
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship--only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
ERICA JONG
How To Save Your Own Life
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced--when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.
JOHN IRVING
A Widow for One Year
Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride.
DIANE HAMMOND
Hannah's Dream
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 last, begun to.
HELEN ROWLAND
A Guide to Men
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
ELAYNE BOOSLER
standup routine
No matter how you slice it, divorce is expensive and time-consuming. The most important variable is how well you and your spouse are able to put aside your anger and grief and cooperate on the big issues of money and children. The better you are at working together to make decisions for your changing family structure, the better for your bank account and for your chances of emerging from the divorce with a decent relationship with your ex.
EMILY DOSKOW
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
ALAIN DE BOTTON
attributed, "30 Divorce Quotes That Will Help You Move On From Your Marriage"
The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was something else in the depths that she hadn't seen in a long time--passion.
SUZAH BATTAH
Rekindled Flame
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
JOHN IRVING
A Widow for One Year
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
ELSIE CLEW PARSONS
Fear and Conventionality
A divorce is like taking away one of the two hands. The motor in the clock still runs. The one hand keeps turning, but the time is gone.
WESLEY T. RUNK
The Giant Book of Children's Sermons
The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of the publicity.
LAUREN BACALL
attributed, Women Know Everything!
The best advice I have for other parents going through a divorce is that the kids need to know that both of their parents are good people. It's easy to set the example of kindness and love and respect when the things are good. So if you can do that when things are hard, and wholeheartedly support their relationship with the other parent--you're showing them a certain kind of resiliency.
BRADLY WHITFORD
Good Housekeeping, Jul. 2010
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
MARY KAY BLAKELEY
American Mom
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
DENIS DIDEROT
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws
First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it's important that first marriages go wrong. That's how we learn the truth about ourselves.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People
Going through a divorce is like having every aspect of your life played back. Anything you have mishandled or regretted is talked about by everyone as they try to figure out who was right and who the innocent party really is. The comfort you once experienced is gone completely. There are many choices for new comfort, but most of them have no value except introducing new addictions or pounds of fat or guilt.
KANDACE COOPER
Journey to Meadowbrook Lane