Grief Quote by Mike Wallace

“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief…

— Truman Capote

“Those that are in the state of widowhood must resist the temptations of their youth.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

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

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

— Victor Robinson

Widows are divided into two classes; the bereaved and the relieved.

— Victor Robinson

“She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter followed…

— I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she has slept a good night's sleep, and will…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry,…

— Helen Rowland

Young widows still bide their time.

— Josh Billings

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected…

— Jane Austen

“She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated,…

— Shirley Hazzard

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