Paul Simon Quotes

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

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

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

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

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

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

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

I shouldn't be married.