Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

The city is overrun by a flock of ill-used, and ill-using, petulant, libidinous, extravagant, ill-fitting husbands and wives as a sink is overrun with the foul water of the whole house.

A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I'd have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn't do it for you, and you need to get out of there.

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

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

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

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

I never thought I would be divorced.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

We don’t want to abolish marriage, but we want marriage to be founded on what it was made for, mutual love and respect, and when there is none left or when it vanishes, so shall the marriage vanish. In short, love and respect shall be the only bonds that keep man and wife together, and when they are broken so shall the marriage end.

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.