Alive Quote by Rita Marley

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

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number…

— Michelangelo

Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

— Pierce Brosnan

Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a…

— Fay Weldon

There is no PhD in widowhood. When it's very new, you are often surrounded by good friends, but there is a point when people…

— Maureen Lipman

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

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

— Alexander McCall Smith

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

— John Gay

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

— Roseanne Barr

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

— Helen Rowland