QUOTES ABOUT DIVORCE

January 16, 2012 Updated

Quotes about divorce run the gamut from funny divorce quotes to practical advice divorce quotes. Aunt Mollie has collected divorce quotes over the years and gives you her favorites here.

This divorce quote is from Redbook magazine editor Stacy Morrison, as given to the Chicago Tribune:

"At first I thought I wanted answers. Why is this happening? Why is he leaving me? But what I really wanted was peace, clarity, to let go and to not have my divorce be the thing that defined me."

Stacy describes her divorce journey in her book, Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist's Journey Through the Hell of Divorce. Here's another quote about divorce from Stacy:

"What I wanted on the other side of all this pain wasn’t to win, to be right, or even just to be able to claim the cruddy consolation prize of being the one who was wronged. What I wanted as peace."

Here is a quotation about divorce from Grammy winner Shania Twain:

"My divorce was like a death – a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me there's some way we can save this. We can save this, right?"

Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria had this to say about her 2011 divorce:

"It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I? It was hard."

Singer Cheryl Cole had this to say after her divorce from her unfaithful spouse, Ashley Cole:

"Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have."

The late advice columnist Ann Landers wrote this quote:

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all: this, too, shall pass."

Actress Victoria Principal had this to say about taking a year off of work at the termination of her 21-year-marriage:

"There's got to be grief."

This divorce quote is from blogger Richard Oritz:

"The horror story about divorce is complete loss of control over what matters in your life. Right now, in fact, it is happening all around us. How's that for a nightmare?"

Diana, the late Princess of Wales, had this to say on a television interview during the 1995 breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles:

"Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."

Diana was referring to Camilla Parker-Bowles as the third party. (Camilla is now married to Prince Charles.)

Samantha Waltz contributed this quotation to the anthology, Ask Me About My divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On:

"I was much happier after my divorce. My husband had been very controlling and I literally felt like I'd been let out of prison. Colors were brighter, sounds sharper. My depression lifted."

This quote about divorce comes from professor and divorce blogger Molly Monet:

"I realized it wasn't divorce that's devastating; it's the way divorce is handled."

These are quotes from Aunt Mollie's 'Advice to the Divorcelorn' columns:

"Your marriage isn't your life; it's who you live your life with."

"Loving a cheating spouse is loving the person you thought you knew."

Actress Jaime Pressly gave this account of her 2011 divorce from Simran Singh:

"We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it."

Actor Ryan Reynolds had this to say about his 2011 divorce from actress Scarlett Johansson:

"Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain...I don't think I want to get married again."

Kim Kardashian had this to say about her decision to divorce her husband of 72 days, Kris Humphries:

"It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for."

If you are looking for a divorce quote on the lighter side, the following quotations range from the mildly humorous to the outrageously funny:

Actress Pamela Anderson gave this divorce quotation after her third divorce:

"Men are just like a book – with a beginning, middle and an end."

Ann Landers gave a piece of advice in this famous divorce quote:

"If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife."

Guns N' Roses rocker Axl Rose gave this funny divorce quote to Rolling Stone magazine in 1989:

"It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people."

It's Aunt Mollie's guess that Axl didn't realize how funny that divorce quote is!

These two quotes about divorce come from actress and eight-times-divorced Zsa Zsa Gabor:

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

"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles."

Billionaire Charles Bronson had this to say at the divorce party given to announce the end of his third marriage:

"Guess what? It didn't work."

British senior judge Sir Paul Coleridge is attributed with this divorce quote:

"It's easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now it's just a basic form-filling exercise."

The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has issued this divorce quote:

"Facebook holds the distinction of being the unrivaled leader for online divorce evidence with 66 percent citing it as the primary source."

Comedian Woody Allen gave these funny divorce quotes after the breakup of his first marriage in the 1960's:

"In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery – and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have."

"I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her."

Actress Nicole Kidman gave this funny divorce quote when her marriage to Tom Cruise (reportedly 5/7" tall with his shoes on) dissolved:

"Now I can wear high heels again."

Professional boxer Mike Tyson is credited with this quote about divorce:

"You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat."

Ivana Trump gave this quote on a talk show in 1992 when she divorced real-estate-tycoon Donald Trump: "I will leave like a lady." As her fourth marriage was ending after only a few months in 2009, she was singing a different tune:

"As the beautiful song says, 'Que sera, sera!'"

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