#divorce

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. ↗

— Dennis Hopper

#marriage #marriage

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#decent #divorce #love #men #outcome

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#marriage #marriage

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. ↗

— Jack Benny

#been #consider #divorce #enough #had

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#childless #desire #divorced #figured #got

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me. ↗

— Tim Meadows

#certain point #close #divorce #i #life

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#back #broken #decided #divorced #god