Quote by Victor Robinson

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

— Victor Robinson

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

— Helen Rowland

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

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

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

“Widows (though not widowers) were expected to wear mourning for two years, just as, in general, the burdens of refinement fell most heavily on…

— Mike Wallace

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

— John Gay

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

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

“If one’s husband had been married before and widowed—a fairly common condition—and a close relative of his first wife’s died, the second wife was…

— Bill Bryson

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Alexander McCall Smith