Nicole Kidman Quotes

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

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

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.

It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

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.

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

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.

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

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.

I suppose I was still optimistic and unrealistic, and I just hoped we could keep going as we were. But no. That was not good enough for Stephen, so off he went. Those were hard times. They really were. But then, I suppose, divorce is always hard.

I was a mess my freshman year of college. I still had so much pain in my heart.

Divorce in itself is so difficult to get through.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

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

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

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

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.