Widowhood Quotes

• the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Independent, Finals, Lessons

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• Cualquiera puede enviudar. No hay requisitos especiales. Ocurre en menos tiempo del que se tarda en respirar. No requiere la planificación, por ejemplo, que se necesita para convertirse en esposa o madre o cualquiera de los otros roles rituales de la feminidad.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Mother, Wife, Special

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

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Would Be, Should

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.5, Anchor

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• A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

  Helen Rowland

  Maturity, Men, Halos

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.45, Litres

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• Si dos personas se aman no puede haber final feliz.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Breakup, Two

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). "Muerte por la tarde", p.100, Simon and Schuster

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

  Victor Robinson

  Class, Two, Widows

  Victor Robinson (1907). “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft”

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• There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Uncles, Earth, Forget

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

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• El que sobrevive a una esposa a la que ha amado durante mucho tiempo, se ve separado de la única mente que tiene las mismas esperanzas, temores e intereses; de la única compañera con la que ha compartido mucho bien y mucho mal, y con la que podía poner su mente en libertad para rememorar el pasado o anticipar el futuro. La continuidad del ser está lacerada; el curso establecido del sentimiento y la acción está detenido; y la vida está suspendida e inmóvil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Past, Long

  Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

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• Widow. The word consumes itself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Widows, Widowers, Widowed

  'Widow' (1971)

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Soul, Brevity, Feels

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Match Maker", 1911.

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• No hay hombre más solo en la muerte, salvo el suicida, que aquel que ha vivido muchos años con una buena esposa y luego la ha sobrevivido. Si dos personas se aman no puede haber un final feliz.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Amor, Vida, Relación

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). "Muerte por la tarde", p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

  Courtney Love

  Jobs, Rocks, People

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• El pobre niño de ocho meses, huérfano de padre, es ahora una viuda de cuarenta y dos años, con el corazón totalmente roto y aplastado. Mi vida feliz ha terminado; el mundo ha desaparecido para mí. Si he de seguir viviendo (y no haré nada que me haga peor de lo que soy), será en adelante por nuestros pobres hijos huérfanos de padre, por mi desdichado país, que lo ha perdido todo al perderlo a él, y por hacer sólo lo que sé y siento que él desearía.

  Queen Victoria

  Vida, País, Bebé

  Queen Victoria, Victoria Victoria, A. C. Benson (2014). "The Letters of Queen Victoria", p.602, Cambridge University Press.

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• One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Years, Suffering, Steps

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

  Vivian Gornick

  Father, Tired, Years

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• In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Names, Religion

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• If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be, Poison, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• Cuando la luna, después de cubrirse de oscuridad como en el dolor, se despoja por fin de las vestiduras de su viudez, no se expone de inmediato impúdicamente a las miradas del público, sino que durante un tiempo permanece velada en una nube transparente, hasta que poco a poco adquiere valor para soportar las miradas y la admiración de los espectadores.

  Augustus William Hare

  Luna, nubes, oscuridad

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• La viudez impuesta por la religión o la costumbre es un yugo insoportable y contamina el hogar con vicios secretos y degrada la religión.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Secret, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Brother, Grief, Loss

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics

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• Cuando murió mi madre, la temprana viudedad de mi padre le dio un caché social que no habría tenido si se hubieran divorciado. Él era un partido más grande para la pena adjunta.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Father, Sorrow

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• [Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.

  Tertuliano

  Religious, Art, Divorce

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• I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

  Carolyn Green

  Believe, Memorable, Divorce

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