Marina Abramovic Quotes

I hate the word 'break.' It's just a business deal at the end of the day so there's no such thing as giving a break.

I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

I think there is a real negative attitude to splitting up with someone in our society, but it is good to stay friends.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go.

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

The separation is perfect, complete, and perpetual.

Disunion is the only alternative that is left us

Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

I can't believe I have an ex-fiancee.

Everybody has been broken up with. Everybody has broken up with somebody.

I want people to not be embarrassed going through breakups and divorces, to know what to do before they get involved in a relationship.

If two people are not happy together, it's better to end the relationship than prolong the suffering.