Widowhood Quotes

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

… those who have been married to one wife, if she was a widow, and likewise those who after their ordination have unlawfully entered into one marriage that is, presbyters, and deacons, and subdeacons, being debarred for some short time from sacred ministration, and censured, shall be restored again to their proper rank, never advancing to any further rank, their unlawful marriage being openly dissolved.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife.

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

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.

My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

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

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

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

No widow shall be compelled to marry ... while she chooses to live without a husband.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

France is a widow.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.