The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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 elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.
There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.
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 stop you feeling it.
The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.