33 Overcoming Divorce Quotes and Sayings

Divorce has been on the rise in recent years. Almost like a contagious epidemic, many couples have not been able to seek resolution for their differences. Here are some great sayings and overcoming divorce quotes that will help you to find a way to overcome this difficult time in your life.

“A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.”

“Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic.”

“But in the real world, you couldn’t really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between.”

“Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”

“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.”

“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”

“He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.”

“Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.”

“I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought.”

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”

“It wasn’t about being happy or unhappy. I just didn’t want to be me anymore.”

“My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”

“My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.”

“Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

“Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.”

“So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, and gave flowers but no card.”

“Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“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.”

“The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service.”

“The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.”

“There is no such thing as a”broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents.”

“They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.”

“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”

“When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children.”

“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.”

“You don’t know when you’re twenty-three. You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there.”

“Your relationship may be”Breaking Up,” but you won’t be”Breaking Down.” If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.”

Considered a painful period in a person’s life, divorce is not a preferred response for many couples that as confronted with pain and distrust.