Relationship Dissolution Quotes

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.

I can't imagine the biggest blow to me was that marriage not working out. That just flipped me out.

Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.

I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it's gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don't go, 'ohhhh I'm sorry.' That's a stupid thing to say. First of all you're making 'em feel bad for being really happy, which isn't fair. And second of all: divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true, because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. It's really that simple.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

It's easy to talk about how great love is or how you feel heartbroken after a breakup, but it's not as easy to talk about the process of going through the end of a relationship.