Katy Perry Quotes

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

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

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Divorce was the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle - there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life. You get through it. It's a process that's not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

I would have to say that my divorce was an incredibly difficult experience in my life, but I am truly thankful for it. It made me a stronger and better person.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

I had a long-term relationship that failed. I had some health issues. When you dip down emotionally you can gather some things that help you when you do rise. If you go through it and you're OK, you can develop some scars that help you in the time after.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

I've never had my heart broken.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.