Happy divorce Quotes

21 quotes from 19 authors

Turning a marriage’s end into a source of joy isn’t easy, yet 21 contributors share how they reclaimed happiness after divorce. Some treat the split as a legal sparring match, others frame it as an opportunity to reset life’s objectives. Their varied perspectives—sharp humor, candid honesty, and hopeful optimism—offer a roadmap for anyone seeking peace beyond the breakup.

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Winning isn't the end of the world

David Pleat

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In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Ruth Gordon

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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Tracy Letts

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Mark Twain

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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Evan Esar

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Live with the objective of being happy.

Anne Frank

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Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Big Pun

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Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

Pat Robertson

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Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

Joan Rivers

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

Evan Esar

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Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

Emily Doskow

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Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

Warren Farrell

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A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

Elsie Clews Parsons

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Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women…

William Faulkner

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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages…

Betty Friedan

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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,…

Lenny Clarke

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“I like marriage, family life and I wish to get married again. But opting out of an unhappy marriage was a duty…

Rossana Condoleo

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For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form…

Fred Rogers

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“Happiness supports enthusiasm and empowers creativity and initiative. Happiness makes you a better person in your private, family, and work spheres. Happiness…

Rossana Condoleo

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She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Tommy Manville

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