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30 Divorce Quotes That Will Help You Move On From Your Marriage
It's an unhappy time when a marriage ends, but sometimes it needs to happen in order to move on to better things. If you're in the midst of going through a divorce, heed these words from people who have been there already.
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Alain de Botton
Betsy Farrell
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Bette Davis
Betsy Farrell
I’d marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he’d be dead in a year.
Every couple has the same five arguments in their lifetime, which is really just the one, over and over, until people die or divorce. What it is depends on who you are and what your parents did to you
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Margaret Atwood
Betsy Farrell
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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Helen Rowland
Betsy Farrell
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to.
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Ellen Goodman
Betsy Farrell
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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Andre Dubus III
Betsy Farrell
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner.
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Mary Kay Blakely
Betsy Farrell
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
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.
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Hedy Lamarr
Betsy Farrell
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
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Gerald F. Lieberman
Betsy Farrell
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
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Nora Ephron
Betsy Farrell
For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.
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Lee Radziwill
Betsy Farrell
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Betsy Farrell
Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one: whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.