Introduction:
Divorce is a deeply personal and often challenging experience that can leave a lasting impact on individuals and families alike. It marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another, bringing forth a range of emotions from grief and loss to relief and newfound independence. Through the tumultuous journey of divorce, people often find solace, understanding, and even humor in the words of others who have traversed similar paths. Divorced Quotes is a collection of poignant, insightful, and sometimes humorous reflections on the complexities of separation and the resilience of the human spirit.
Within these pages, you’ll find a diverse array of quotes that capture the myriad emotions and experiences associated with divorce. From profound insights on healing and self-discovery to witty quips about the absurdities of love and marriage, these quotes offer comfort, inspiration, and a sense of camaraderie to those navigating the challenges of divorce. Whether you’re seeking words of wisdom to soothe a broken heart or simply looking for a way to express your own feelings, Divorced Quotes provides a curated selection of sentiments that resonate deeply with the complexities of separation and the journey toward new beginnings. Explore, reflect, and find solace in the shared experiences of others who have walked the path of divorce before you. Remember, you are not alone.
Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I’m 46, I’ve worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states. Arthur Godfrey
If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. Tom Cotton
It’s kind of crazy to think that I’ve now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents. Regina King
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. Todd Tiahrt
When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there. Martina Hingis
We’re divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us. Mattie Stepanek
There are some women who have made some really hurting remarks about my relationship with my husband Himanshu Malhotra. They even dared to ask me if I have divorced him just because I don’t put my pictures with him too often. Now that is really ridiculous! Amruta Khanvilkar
My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad’s house on the weekend, he’d play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John. Lil Yachty
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. Vera Brittain
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. William Irwin Thompson
I’ve seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father. Harshvardhan Rane
I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I divorced and took control of my life. Tina Turner
My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting. Michele Bachmann
I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we’re, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality. Robert Lanza
Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it’s a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them. Alanna Ubach
Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press’s microscope. But I have a feeling it’s a full and active club now. Ivana Trump
How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. Lee Trevino
In my own life, my parents divorced when I was young. I lived with my dad, not with my mum, after they got divorced. And it’s been part of my life. Andrew Haigh
I’ve been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, ‘What’s the secret? Don’t get divorced!’ Wavy Gravy
If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. Heather Donahue
You never really know a man until you have divorced him. Zsa Zsa Gabor
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. Yasmine Hamdan
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn’t have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. Matt Damon
I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can’t keep track actually, because it’s not that important. I just am who I am. Lana Wood
I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something is wrong with me. Elayne Boosler
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
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. Daisaku Ikeda
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I’ve come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself. Sylvester Stallone
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
When I got divorced, I thought ‘Well, there goes my act.’ Louis C. K.
My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people. Lauren Alaina
When you’re the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you’re spoilt so you don’t get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13. Eddie Marsan
The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn’t lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging. Howard Stringer
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. Eliza Dushku
There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them. Alec Baldwin
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero
When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’ Louis C. K.
My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together. Jesse Metcalfe
I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn’t have a family to go home to. Now I don’t want to be Mr. Show Business anymore. Alec Baldwin
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. David Chipperfield
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it’s that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can’t wait too long. It’s the single simplest measure to predict divorce. Elizabeth Gilbert
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. Louis de Bernieres
My parents divorced, and I didn’t have much of a daddy growing up. Pink
I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Princess Diana
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. Giancarlo Esposito
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together. J. Cole
My second husband, Eric Villency, is the father of my beautiful boy Ronan Anthony. Even though we’re divorced, I’m still very close with his family. Kimberly Guilfoyle
I think that people should never be ashamed of wanting to move on with their lives and move on from their partners. I have a lot of girlfriends who were married in their early 20s and are now divorced because they basically grew apart – they evolved into another person in their 30s. Alanna Ubach
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. Vivienne Westwood
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. Jean Kerr
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced. Romesh Ranganathan
I don’t think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. Sharon Stone
I just don’t like when there’s a rumor that says I’m dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, ‘Thank you for the big ups!’ Marilyn Manson
When I got divorced, I knew I needed to step it up, so I taught nutrition at a college, modeled, and built my dietitian practice all over Canada. Maye Musk
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving
It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don’t leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs. Richie Benaud
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 – not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry. Jenni Rivera
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn’t very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. Martin Seligman
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. Aimee Mann
‘Duch’ means spirit and ‘ovny’ is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It’s my father’s name, obviously. He took the ‘H’ out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the ‘H’ back in. David Duchovny
I’m a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That’s how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, ‘I want the Waldorf,’ and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. Susan Faludi
Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that’s why my mom didn’t want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that’s when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory. Bayley
I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say ‘dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds…’ or ‘my 14-year-old is 200 pounds…’ or ‘I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.’ So I pick up the phone and I call people. Richard Simmons
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. Vinnie Jones
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
As a society, we’ve evolved, and we’ve recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn’t know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It’s not as scandalous as it was. Laura Wasser
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced. Eduardo Galeano
I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing. Spike Jonze
‘I Know You Care’ is about my dad. And I haven’t seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasn’t bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing. Ellie Goulding
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn’t play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two. Olivia Hussey
My father, Prince Aly Khan, and mother divorced when I was only 3. I used to spend summers with him in the South of France. Yasmin Aga Khan
Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they’re actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they’re in in the course of the day. Daniel Kahneman
It’s so crazy: my mom and dad divorced when I was 11, and my fondest memories are in the Philippines and being raised by my mom. It’s such a big part of my life. Jo Koy
I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn’t spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite… bonding with him, in a weird way. Teddy Thompson
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality… Buildings were judged – at least by members of our own profession – more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them. Christopher Alexander
I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you’ve had children with someone you’re divorced from, divorce defines everything; it’s the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain. Nora Ephron
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be. Josh Gad
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. Thomas Sowell
I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the ’90s called ‘This Woman and This Man,’ and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again. Cole Swindell
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals. Jacob Rothschild
Maybe it’s because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I’m frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don’t need reassurance. Juliette Binoche
My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced when I was about 9. In 1978, my dad moved to Nashville and opened an independent record promotion company, Mike Borchetta Promotions. Scott Borchetta
You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think. Dustin Lance Black
My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space. Jade Bird
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro. Tucker Max
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: ‘No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.’ My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that’s what he writes. So we decided we’d give it a try. Well, we almost divorced. Isabel Allende
My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid. Caroline Polachek
Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children’s lives. Larry Elder
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns
My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn’t have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times. Angela Bowie
My parents got divorced when I was really young. Robert Downey Sr.
People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don’t work out. I won’t be the first person to be divorced. Tiki Barber
My parents got divorced in the mid-70s and I didn’t really have much to do with my dad after that. Or indeed much to do with him before that, to be honest. Caroline Quentin
Getting divorced didn’t sour me on the institution of marriage. I’ll tell you what I’ll never do: I’ll never get divorced again. Eddie Murphy
No one – not a conservative or liberal or whatever – can stand back and ‘define’ what marriage means. Other people’s marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children. Kurt Eichenwald
My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren’t affected. Michelle Keegan
Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor ‘out there’ in the world. We experience stress – or we don’t – depending on what we believe. Andrew J. Bernstein
I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced. Sue Hubbell
