Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
“years old and widowed. No children. He’d sold his insurance business” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill. — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
“Only one word describes a woman widowed for the second time on her wedding night – cursed.” — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle! — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad. — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there,… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
“wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her,” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
“one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive’.” — Lisa Hilton Copy Share Image
Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
I'm newly widowed, so I've gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with, to doing it… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Are you a relative of her late husband?” the woman asked. His eyes widened. “I beg your pardon?” “It must be so… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate.… — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In Afghanistan when a woman is widowed, she is generally taken in by her late husband’s family. His brother might marry her… — Douglas Grindle Copy Share Image