Widowhood

(216 votes)   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. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(173 votes)   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.

Queen Victoria
1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain

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(160 votes)   Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(135 votes)   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
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(134 votes)   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
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(121 votes)   There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(114 votes)   I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold]

Roseanne

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(99 votes)   He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.

Sir Henry Wotton
1568-1639, British Diplomat, Traveler, Scholar, and Poet

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