Marriage and divorce Quotes

22 quotes from 19 authors

After years of vows and shared dreams, a split can feel like a sudden fault line. The voices here expose selfish pulls, gender imbalances, and the quiet ache that follows a broken contract, offering raw insight for anyone navigating the fallout of marriage and divorce.

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Oscar Wilde

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

Jess C Scott

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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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Pat Conroy

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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Evan Esar

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

Tommy Manville

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Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Larry Gelbart

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Erica Jong

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

Spencer W. Kimball

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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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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing…

Malcolm Turnbull

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Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying…

Jayne Mansfield

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Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Larry Gelbart

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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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The 60s was nuclear for women. New laws gave them stronger standing in both marriage and divorce. They went back into the…

Dawn O'Porter

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Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage,…

Thomas Moore

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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and…

Erica Jong

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“Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what…

Caroline Abbott

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

Spencer W. Kimball

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“one of his frequent trips worried about the political situation in the country. The Liberals were determined to go to war. Since…

Anonymous

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“Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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