I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a…

“You say you are an orpahn, or a widow or a widower, but when you have lost two sons on the same day, two…

— Nathacha Appanah

“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those…

— Shannon Celebi

“Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers'…

— M.L. Stedman

“Why a widow should raise an attractive or pathetic image in one’s mind, or at the worst something rather bold and dashing, while widower…

— Angela Thirkell

“Phoebe had become two almost-spectral things: a widow to a living man, and a childless mother”

— Randy Susan Meyers

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly…

— Alan Thicke

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

— Eminem

“You've got no sense of humor." "I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.”

— J.D. Robb

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

— Casey Affleck

“For the widow inhabits a tale not of her own telling.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving intelligently—“shrewdly” and “reasonably”—she is taking…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Legally I am a ‘widow’ — that is the box I must check. But beyond that — I am not sure that I ­exist.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like…

— Joyce Carol Oates