Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more…

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

— James Martineau

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of…

— James Martineau

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

— Mike Mills

“Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory.…

— Lindsay Hill

“The heart breaks open,...'I know now that we never get over great losses: we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder,…

— Anonymous

“But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison…

— Christopher Nolan

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

— John Hickenlooper

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

— Nigella Lawson

“I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy…

— Linda Gillard

“Are you a relative of her late husband?” the woman asked. His eyes widened. “I beg your pardon?” “It must be so hard for…

— Diana Palmer

Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find…

— Harville Hendrix

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

— Josemaria Escriva

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

— Victoria Wood

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of…

— Judy Biggert

“Only one word describes a woman widowed for the second time on her wedding night – cursed.”

— Jean M. Grant