Pete Holmes Quotes

Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

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.

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

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.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

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

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

What's worse than getting divorced?

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

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.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

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

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. But marriage - that fits some people but obviously not me.

My divorce wasn't fun.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories.