Quotes about divorce

When anyone asks me how I got involved in Buddhism, I always say it was because I was so angry with my husband... When that marriage fell apart, I tried hard—very, very hard—to go back to some kind of comfort, some kind of security, some kind of familiar resting place... I knew that annihilation of my old dependent, clinging self was the only way to go.

"Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis.

"I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce."

After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.

Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.

In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, “Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.”

This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.