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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"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

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

Robin Williams, Comedian

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

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

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

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse"

Arthur Baer, Writer

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

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

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

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

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

Kurt Cobain, Musician

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

Tertullian, Author

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

John Barrymore, Actor

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

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

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

Edith Wharton, Author

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"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

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

Nicolas Cage, Actor

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"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 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

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

Mary Kay Blakely, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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"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

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"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

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

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"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

"My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"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, Editor

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

John Updike, Novelist

"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

"Divorce is a game played by lawyers"

Cary Grant, Actor

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"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

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

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

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