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101 " 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. "
102 " 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. "
103 " There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. "
104 " 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. "
105 " 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. "
106 " 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. "
107 " Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
108 " 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. "
109 " 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. "
110 " 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. "
111 " My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years. "
112 " Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. "
― Zsa Zsa Gabor
113 " 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. "
114 " I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. "
115 " Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? "
116 " I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me. "
117 " '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. "
118 " 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. "
119 " Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. "
120 " My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on. "