Donald Barthelme Quotes

Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

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

When I talk about divorce, I am not blaming the women I've married. It's not their fault.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family?

I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

If you think I have the power to determine when people leave their spouses, you attribute far too much credit to me.

Nobody wants to get divorced.

I think it's better, if people aren't getting on, that they should divorce.

Anyone who goes through divorce goes through a very hard time.

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

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

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.