6 Great Divorce Quotes From Literature

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divorce quotesAs an online divorce review site we often find inspiration in the thoughts and words of great writers. Here are some of the best quotes on divorce from some of our favorites.

1. “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 Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

— Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

3. “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. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts And Homes

4. “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 Weiner, Fly Away Home

5. “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 Dessen, What Happened To Goodbye

6. “In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word ‘divorce’ came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant ‘divide.’ In truth, it comes from ‘divertere,’ which means ‘to divert.’

“I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother’s girdle and whether she should marry someone else.”

— Mitch Albom, For One More Day

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