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How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened…

— Hortense Odlum

“The thing is, it is easier for me than it is for some people. I know that even though I miscarried a baby and…

— Nora McInerny Purmort

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their…

— Irvin D. Yalom

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving…

— William Shatner

“I have often thought,” she said, “that women are the only true adults in the world, and men are a species of children. When…

— Phyllis T. Smith

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

— Bill Vaughan

I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much

— Ann Coulter

Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the…

— Anonymous

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

— Napoleon Hill

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the…

— Philippe Aries

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people…

— Michael Sheen

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of…

— Sarah Manguso