Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

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.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

There's nothing good about divorce.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

I was married for four years, then success happened.

Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.

My divorce wasn't fun.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

I always wanted to do something about what it's like to get divorced, especially when it's a young marriage to start with.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.