50 Empowering Divorce Quotes That Will Help You Move On

If you are someone who is going through a divorce or is divorced, then these divorce quotes by some of the most loved people in this world might resonate with you, and also serve as some much needed after divorce motivation.

Divorce is always a tough situation to deal with, and there is no easy way around it. People underestimate the mental toll divorce can take on you, and it is not that simple to just move on from it. But, so is staying in a marriage that is not working out.

Sometimes, the hardest things are the best things you can do for yourself. Here is a compilation of 50 inspirational divorce quotes and positive divorce quotes that will help you get through those dark days when you need some much-needed support and inspiration.

Let’s take a look at these divorce quotes, shall we?

50 Inspirational Divorce Quotes That Will Help You Feel Better

1. “You never really know a man until you have divorced him.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor

2. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

3. Divorce isn’t the child’s fault. Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you’re really just hurting the child.” – Valerie Bertinelli

4. “When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to.” – Helen Rowland

5. “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.” – C. Joybell C.

6. “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.” – Jennifer Weiner

7. “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” – Rupi Kaur

8. “I wanted to turn my divorce into a positive. What if I didn’t blame the other person for anything, and held myself 100 percent accountable? What if I checked my owns— at the door and put my children first? And reminded myself about the things about my ex-husband that I love, and fostered the friendship?” – Gwyneth Paltrow

9. “Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.” – J.K. Rowling

10. “There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate and negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.” – Reese Witherspoon

11. “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

12. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping it will transform into a door.” – Coco Chanel

13. “Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.” – Sonia Sotomayor

14. “It always gets worse before it can get better. But it will get better. Like everything else, and like our past struggles, at some point, we win, but before that win, there’s always that loss that spurs us on.” – Dolores Huerta

15. “I was a high-functioning depressive, seemingly pulled together and buttoned-down. But inside deep, I was numb and mute. Now on the other side of divorce, I know that was me fragmented and doing my best to cope. But my body knew.” – Liza Caldwell

16. “Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.” – Jonathan Franzen

17. “In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word ‘divorce’ came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant ‘divide.’ In truth, it comes from ‘divertere,’ which means ‘to divert.’ I believe that. All divorce does is divert you.” – Mitch Albom

18. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” – Toni Morrison

19. “When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.” – Monica Bellucci

20. “I do not believe that there were more happy marriages before divorce became socially acceptable, that people tried harder, got through their rough times, and were better off. I believe that more people suffered.”- Ann Patchett

21. “Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. 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.” – Amy Poehler

22. “I think that men were allowed to write about their marriages falling apart, but you weren’t quite supposed to if you were a woman. You were just supposed to curl up into a ball and move to Connecticut. But you know, it didn’t really matter because, as I said, I knew what the book was. It’s a funny book, and I was very happy that it sold a lot of copies.” – Nora Ephron

23. “I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.” – Erica Jong

24. “You can come at it very aggressively and blame and blame and blame. Or you can put yourself in the garage, so to speak. Take yourself apart and clean off the bits. Reassemble.” – Chris Martin

25. “I’d marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he’d be dead in a year.” – Bette Davis

26. “A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.” – Margaret Atwood

27. “Every couple has the same five arguments in their lifetime, which is really just the one, over and over, until people die or divorce. What it is, depends on who you are and what your parents did to you.” – Amy Bloom

28. “You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.” – Ellen Goodman

29. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber

30. “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.” – Michelle Obama

31. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda

32. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

33. “I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning—even during our darkest nights.” – Oprah Winfrey

34. “Perhaps sometimes reminding ourselves that we do have a choice makes it easier to pick the harder one.” – Eva Melusine Thieme

35. “Half of all marriages end in divorce—and then there are the really unhappy ones.” – Joan Rivers

36. “It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.” – Jennifer Aniston

37. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

38. “It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the [one before], and pretty soon we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.” – Ricki Lake

39. “The good thing about getting divorced young—if there is a good thing—is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life. It blasts you wide open and frees you to be honest with yourself.” – Olivia Wilde

40. “Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.” – Gerald F. Lieberman

41. “Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.” – Claire Cook

42. “I used to hope that you’d bring me flowers. Now I plant my own.” – Rachel Wolchin

43. “She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.” – Jeanette Winterson

44. “To live, to err, to triumph, to re-create life out of life!” – James Joyce

45. “I don’t have any fear now, I don’t have a lot of rules for myself, and I don’t take myself that seriously.” – Katie Holmes

46. “A divorce is always a good thing to have: you never can tell when you may want it.” – Edith Wharton

47. “For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.” – Joyce Brothers

48. “Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain, but you come out of it.” – Ryan Reynolds

49. “How many divorces are caused by the word ‘nothing?’ I think this would be a very interesting statistic.” – Sophie Kinsella

50. “Divorces are made in heaven.” – Oscar Wilde

Going through a divorce might be one of the most difficult and painful things you will do in your life, but don’t think that it’s the end of everything. See it as a new beginning. See it as the light at the end of the tunnel.

Being positive can largely help you get through this tough time, and the silver lining in this is that you will be able to focus on yourself as you deserve. Hopefully, these positive divorce quotes and inspirational divorce quotes helps you with some after divorce motivation and makes your journey a little bit easier.