Al Alvarez Quotes

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

Nobody wants to get divorced.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family?

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.