Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock
I’m not upset about my divorce. I’m only upset I’m not a widow. – Roseanne Barr
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.
If there is such a thing as depression and despair, I experienced it during the months leading-up to and following the divorce. Insomnia, constant and uncontrollable thoughts and a deep sense of loss were among the conditions of my life. Was I depressed-yes, I was very much so and, what’s worse, was determined to do nothing immediately for it. – H. Kirk Rainer
The real wonder is that anyone stays together, as impossible to live with and as broken as we all are.
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. – Suzan Battah
It takes two to destroy a marriage. – Margaret Trudeau
A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. – Jean Kerr
A friend of mine recently divorced his wife after 37 years. He said he was looking for a some-sex relationship. – Greg Tamblyn
Divorce is the price people pay for playing with matches.
The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage. – Cher
The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
Gone is the idea that you know where you are headed, that you know who your friends are, that you know who you are. To get divorced is to feel entirely lost on streets that you could once navigate with your eyes closed. The past feels cut off, across a divide, barely visible behind you.
When I divorced I went through the various stages of grieving: anger, denial, and dancing around with my settlement check. – Maura Kennedy
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.
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years.
If marriage means you fell in love, does divorce mean you climbed out?
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
I wasn’t actually divorced. I was traded. – Tim Conway
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