Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

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

I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

I do not regret the end of my first marriage.

In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.

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

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them.

Drew is a wonderful woman. I love her very much. I wish our marriage could have worked out. I wish her much happiness.

I can speak for everybody in saying we've all been through a breakup to where you didn't want it to be over.

I'll never get married again.

I think divorce doesn't necessarily bring out the best in people.

Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

'You Broke Up With Me' was fun yet definitely addressed an inner emotion of mine.

Everybody has been broken up with. Everybody has broken up with somebody.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.