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Widowhood Quotes

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Sylvia Plath
Widows, Widowhood, Widowers
'Widow' (1971)

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Independent, Finals, Widowhood

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

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

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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

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

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

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