Quotes of Widowhood - somelinesforyou

“ I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. ”

- Roseanne

“ The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. ”

- John Gay

“ A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood. ”

- Carolyn Green

“ There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Widow. The word consumes itself. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died. ”

- Sir Henry Wotton

“ Widows are divided into two classes — the bereaved and relieved. ”

- Victor Robinson

“ He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future… ”

- Samuel Johnson
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