Browse 1904 quotes about Divorce.
“Hindsight teaches us that it is better to wait than to regret.”
“This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there will come a time when you will be tempted to run away. Would that be right? Would that be fair? As every matriarch discovers, entire seasons will pass without reward. As your mate's peculiarities add up, what do you do? Wait!”
Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“قد تلوم الرجل الذي يطلق زوجته بعد ثلاثين عاما لكنك يجب أن تشهد له بفضيلة الصبر”
Source: للكبار فقط
“sometimes you have to leave someone that is very close to you in order to reach your lifetime purpose”
“My tumultuous feelings were getting stronger and had to be evaded aggressively. One was especially tenacious: 'Would it really be so bad to leave Gregori?”
Source: Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece
“He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."
Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?"
"No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.”
“He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')”
Source: The Tethers
“Together we were like two oxen yoked with the burden of expectation, and there was no room for me to veer left toward self-discovery or for him to veer right toward whatever it was he needed.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“LOVE IS LIKE A DESIGNER FASHION, ENJOY IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT. LET IT GO WHEN IT IS GONE BECAUSE A NEW ONE WILL COME.”
Source: The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and The Death of a Loved One
“Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person's actions will tell you everything you need to know. Love yourself enough to say goodbye to those who don't make time for you or don't know how to love you back. Let go of what hurts, even if it hurts to let go." ~ Jennifer Green”
Source: Winning While Losing: The Upside of Heartbreak
“Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their face!”
“Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?”
“I felt heavy, guilty, as though I’d had an affair with Freedom and surely he’d note the scent of it on my skin, the lust for it in my eyes.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“The truth was, I was not just afraid to be alone—I was unprepared. Even though I considered myself to be a free-thinking, independent individual, the strands of my life had always been enmeshed with others, something that was now being revealed to me in so many ways.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“It was a day filled with relief and grief in equal measure. I mourned for the fact that we would not create memories together. I mourned for the fact that we would not create memories together. I rejoiced for the fact that we would not create more memories together. I cried because both of those opposing states were true.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.”
“She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.”
“For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.
And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.”
Source: The Billion-Dollar Marriage Contract
“((طلاق)) یک اتفاق سخت و ناراحت کننده است. اگر سعی کنید آن را طوری جلوه دهید که گویی مشکل کوچکی است یا تاثیر عاطفی چندانی ندارد، در واقع ارزش زندگی خانوادگی خود را که تا آن روز با هم داشته اید زیر سوال می برید. همچنین این کار توهینی است به توانایی و شهامت کودک تان در ((درک)) اهمیت این اتفاق.”
Source: Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Afraid to Ask About Divorce
“Family dysfunction in conjunction with access to guns is concerning!”
“You gave me love and I gave it to your sister.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that everything I have is chronic. My whole life is a chronic condition.”
Source: Why
“If a woman has an education and a skill, she has guaranteed divorce insurance for her lifetime … What is divorce insurance? It’s an education, a skill, a profession, an ability to take care of yourself, come what may … The only insurance protection you have is financial independence.”
“You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.”
“Anything worth having is worth working for and waiting for.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“When we lose someone we love and we also lose a part of ourselves, it's something more. When who we have lost is so deeply connected to who we are, when we are inextricably linked not only to a person but to our connection to them, the loss of our relationship is often a loss of our own self. That is why such loss stretches beyond being heartbroken to being soulbroken.”
Source: Soulbroken: A Guidebook for Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief
“Grief, I learned, doesn’t care how hard you attempt to understand her. She doesn’t care if you are already depressed or suffer from suicidal ideation. She doesn’t wait for you to be ready, and the longer you defer her presence, the heavier her weight becomes.”
Source: Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder
“...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's desire. What was troubling her this morning? Maybe Kate had reproached her on the phone for leaving me? How dare Kate.
Oh yeah? Go for it, my darling. Remind her of what she's missing. No, don't.”
Source: Barney's Version
“I'll be, I'll be your cast-off
Be your maybe sometime choice”
“There was no social ritual to indicate that I had undergone a major life event. No forty days of rest as after childbirth, no forty days of mourning after death. There was no symbolic act of closure. Like the divorce, the absence of closure would be a unique cross for me to bear.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Grief shakes our foundations so hard sometimes it can open up cracks for healing to seep in”
“Now that I have died by one's hand I must learn to live by my own”
“ADHD is not a mental illness even though the government says it is. It is an amazing blessing if you learn how to use it and stop using it to play a victim.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“As much fun as you can have online, always value a real friendship over something virtual. Do yourself a favor and phone, text, or message someone you haven’t seen in six months and ask if they are available for coffee or something. Challenge yourself to do this every month. Turn it into a habit and do it for the rest
of your life.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Be content with your choices. The human heart has no room for regret. But also, don’t be afraid to not give up on love. Society tells us that it is okay to throw love away too easily. I think this makes for too many unhealthy old people.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Nobody should live life without knowing someone they would give theirs for.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Don’t be one of those people who say they don’t need someone to love. Seek love out! It should be the most important goal in your life aside from your relationship with a higher power, if you believe in one.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Love is not easy, but it is worth it.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Depression is significantly more serious, and everyone should be taught to recognize warning signs in school so that we are better prepared as a society, to help those who need us in the future.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“May we find a way to give fresh starts to those who need them before we lose our opportunity, and our chance to be the best of what makes us human.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Live your life without thinking you have to change who you are to please someone else… and find someone who
will put up with your faults because you make it worth the effort for them.
Don’t forget to make it worth the effort.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“There is no such thing as quality time without quantity time. The idea that you could spend one hour a night with your children and have the same effect on them as a stay at home parent spending 12‐16 hours a day with them is pure nonsense.
The same logic works for your marriage.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Suicide is a dark and horrible thought that has hit very close to my life, but if we don’t talk about it, we learn nothing; and if we learn nothing, then the greatest loss in suicide is to the living.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“As hard as it is to say, the only lesson I have is to avoid long distance romance if possible. Find a better job at home or move your family. Long distance love can work but the effort is immense, as is the risk.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Use empathy and compassion accordingly. People dealing with loss of a loved one may need your support. Probably not me, but most other people. I say probably because I cannot imagine losing my wife or any of my kids. I might need your support after all.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“How we overcome our fears helps us to learn and grow so we can better handle future fears. These lessons reinforce the idea that fear can be a positive quality.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Know your flaws and respect the people who put up with them… especially when thinking of their flaws. Invest time thinking of how your strengths can help you overcome the flaws in others before they bring out flaws in your personality.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“If you keep finding yourself in a deeper hole, no matter what you try to do to improve your life, you need to do two things. First, stop digging. Clearly the same level of thinking that put you in the hole cannot help you escape. Secondly, seek out help from a friend who has what you want, a mentor with a vested interest in your future, or a professional who understands what you are going through.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“You don’t need me or some actor, musician, or anyone else to convince you. It starts with you choosing to believe that you can do anything you want… even write a haiku.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.