Marriage & Partnership: Divorce Quotes

Explore a thoughtful collection of divorce quotes that acknowledge grief, change, and the dignity of moving forward. Selections highlight resilience, self-compassion, and clear boundaries while honoring the complexities of ending a partnership. Find words to steady co-parenting, encourage healing, and spark perspective as you rebuild. Draw on voices from writers, therapists, and public figures reflecting on closure, growth, and new beginnings with care and balance.

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"One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

Robert Byrne

"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

Groucho Marx

"Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet"

Robin Williams, Comedian

Robin Williams

"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

Ingrid Bergman

"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me"

Elayne Boosler, Comedian

"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony"

John Barrymore, Actor

John Barrymore

"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point, they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

Nicolas Cage

"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

Dinah Sheridan

"I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs"

Roger Waters, Musician

"A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her"

Gene Ween, Musician

"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, Playwright

"I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life"

Jim Samuels, Writer

"I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass"

Mary Kay Blakely, Writer

"And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know"

Vince Gill, Musician

"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse"

Arthur Baer, Writer

"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Children must be considered in a divorce, considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it!"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

Henny Youngman

"Divorce is a game played by lawyers"

Cary Grant, Actor

Cary Grant

"I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

Lucille Ball

"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"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, Journalist

"France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America""

Helen Rowland, Journalist

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