Loss of a Spouse Quotes

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

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

As a man, if you lose your wife, it's a horrible experience, especially with kids. But when one person passes away and you're still alive, people still depend on you - that's what you have to lean on.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.