George Crabbe Quotes

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

It must be so nice to be a white male.

Years ago I watched my 1st wife suffer through cancer and she went to be with Jesus.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.

Any guy that refers to dating women as the hunt or being on the prowl should be evaluated for a number of conditions.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.