Divorce proverbs

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◆ The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

- Jonathan Franzen99

◆ The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

- Jennifer Weiner99

◆ But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

- Suzanne Finnamore99

◆ We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.

- Kate Chisman99

◆ My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

- Joyce Brothers99

◆ There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn't make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

- Groucho Marx99

◆ I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

- Suzanne Finnamore99

◆ Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

- Groucho Marx99

◆ It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ Why don't you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can't call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.

- Isabel Lopez99

◆ American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced

- Elinor Glyn98