Best Spouses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“My good, beloved wife, née Amy Lou Little, came to me from the girl pool. And there's an enchanting thought for lonely men--a pool of girls, teeming, warm, and deep.”

Women Girls Sexism Misogyny Spouses Wives

Book:While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

Source: While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

“When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously. 6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Jane has been dead for more than two decades. Earlier this year I grieved for her in a way I had never grieved before. At eighty-six, I was sick and thought I was dying. Twenty and twenty-one years ago, every day of her dying for eighteen months, I stayed by her side. It was miserable that Jane should die so young, and it was redemptive that I could be with her every hour of every day. Last February I grieved again, this time that she would not sit over me as I died.”

Death Relationships Loss Grief Dying Aging Old Age Loved Ones Spouses

Book:A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

Source: A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

“How are you? I'm shattered, thanks, how are you? I walk aimlessly through the rooms of my house, what have you been up to? I have woken up in the middle of the last 240 nights in a heart-pounding sweat, what's new with you? I sometimes wish I would never wake up, have you been on vacation this year? I ache for the arms of my sweetheart to hold me tight, how's your family? I feel barren and useless and creepy and mundane, seen any good movies lately? I'm terrified that I'll feel this way forever, I like that sweater you're wearing. I keep seeing his body on the hospital gurney, don't you love this weather. My broken heart is in my throat, let's do lunch. I'm so completely and utterly tired of being sad, thanks, how are you?”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“I love you. I want to know what you are going through, if not now, then some day I want to sit with you and hear it. My imagination is not big enough to comprehend the emotions you are having. How small and insignificant all of this worldly stuff must seem to you. Can you talk? You must miss him intensely. You must think about him in every moment. Which is harder for you, being alone or being in the world of people? Life must feel surreal to you.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“Feel sorry for yourself. Sure, your tiny steel-ribbed mother told you never to do that, But who the hell is going to do it for you? "Piangi, piangi," the old man in the opera tells Violetta. "Cry, honey, cry." Do it right. Do it yourself.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Lise Menn

“I love you. How many times have you been asked, "How are you" today? It's a dreadful question. It's an absurd question. Knowing you and seeing what has happened in your life makes me stop in my tracks and catch myself before I ask anyone that question again. How the hell can you answer that question in the aisle of a supermarket? Come back to the house, you say. Bring your toothbrush and call your boss. You will need a week to hear the complete answer. And you will never be the same if you listen. It's the question that the entire human race reduces itself to each and every day, in each and every encounter, and without the intention of ever truly hearing the answer.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“I became very good at protecting all who would ask. How are you? I'm all right. I'm fine. I'm hanging in there. I'm feeling OK. Thanks for asking. I'm good. I'm doing well. I'm a little tired. I'm handling things. I'm fine, thanks to all of you. I'm getting better. I'm keeping busy. I'm making progress. Fine, better, well, good and thank you for asking.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“Look, it's like falling out of a twenty-story building. All your good friends, they try to puff themselves up for you as soft as possible, But they're still only couch pillows. They may save your life when you hit them, But you're still gonna break every bone in your body.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Lise Menn

“I have yet to meet one widow who hasn't changed in monumental ways as she has coped with her loss. Most of us have gotten to the point where we are not the "pleasers" we once were. We say what we think, we realize that life is precious, and we don't have time to be anything less than who we really are.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Catherine Tidd

“I know how you feel. I hope you're keeping busy. You look good. You will see the gift in this tragedy. Time will heal. The holidays will be tough. It will get easier. I'm glad to hear you're doing well. You're a strong person. Have you gone away at all? How are the kids? How's his mother doing? Call me if you need anything, anything at all.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“I love you. I'm probably going to fail you. My life is full of distractions and I need to live my life. You understand this about me and everyone else, more than I can ever imagine. We need to live our lives. And so I fear that I am not there for you. And my own guilt about that is hard to face. Being with you scares me and makes me uneasy. It's hard to be around truth manifest. I'm not strong enough to hear your truth, know what you know and try to give you what you need. If I tell you this fear, will you still love me? I just want to sit with you, walk with you, hear your voice, hold your hand, be in your home, look at your face, watch you pet the cat, and beg you to trust me.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“Interregnum of old life and new. Angry with you for this dislocation. I loved you in my other life.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Donna Hilbert

“How much she's learned through love about everything, including that quadrant of self visible only to others but exceptionally accessed through the one who knows her best.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Natasha Sajé

“Days are not the way they were when he was alive.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Thiele

“Each day for me is filled with things that I used to look forward to in the morning. Now they feel empty and stressful. Handling my life by myself is sad for me. I liked being part of a team. I liked having someone else to share my day with every night.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Thiele

“Some things you have to do for yourself if you want them done right. Ironing your favorite dress with the tricky collar, Making hot chocolate the way you like it. Feeling sorry for you. Nobody else can do it properly.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Mourning Widows Self Pity Spouses

Author:Lise Menn

“You think you've stopped crying And then the blues come back, You wonder what brought them: The red pen? The wind in the yard? The plaid shirt in the bank? Your buried grief seeps to the surface, Like oil under tar sands. Let it go. It's the rich black residue of the past, Dead life becomes this stuff that sticks to the soles of your feet, Welling up when it damned well pleases. Let it go.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Letting Go Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Lise Menn

“I can only be healed by the particular sweetness of a man who saw into my soul and climbed in anyway. Emerson said "Give all to love" and I reply, is there anything else one might do?”

Love Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Elizabeth Page Roberts

“Once over dinner I told her, of course he loved you! how could you doubt it? and she burst into tears, But he died!”

Love Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Widows Spouses

Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“Our grief mirrors our love.”

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Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“You are my emergency contact. This is the emergency! My life is burning down!”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Emergencies Widows Spouses

Author:Elizabeth von Transehe

“Living in Greece I learned why so many women wore black: a year for parents, for a husband forever, telling the neighbors take care of me, I am weak with grief, I have turned to ash inside.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“I don't need again to learn the bitter lesson that everything I love is a flame between two fingers, no act undone, no word unsaid.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Donna Hilbert

“She says I don't know what to say, as if she'd been raised in the woods by wolves.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Support Dying Poem Grieving Widows Spouses

Book:The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“It's hard to be a widow. People are afraid of me. They don't know what to say. Who knows what to say? I don't know what to say.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Alison Keeler Carrillo

“All moments are hard because I am constantly reminded that he is gone. What do you say in the face of such a brutal reality? Say, I'm so-o-o sorry, and then touch me.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Alison Keeler Carrillo

“What if that something that serves to preserve the memory of you is me?”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Memory Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Christine Silverstein

“I won't repeat the dream in which you leave me. Let's just say I know the world, how it alters in an instant, that I awaken sick in remorse and dread.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Donna Hilbert

“No one knows you're gone. The police still want donations from you And they summoned you for jury duty. The Economist wants you to take advantage of an early renewal offer And so does National Geographic. An acquaintance asks how you are doing (I shake my head) And a new friend wonders About your picture on my phone. They didn't know you. Because if they did, They would know That it is a different world now.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Grieving Mourning Widows Spouses

Author:Elizabeth von Transehe

“Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).”

“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!”

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”

“Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.”

“In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.”

“If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.”

“My husband would not give me an opportunity for worship. That was his greatness. They are cowards who claim absolute devotion from their wives as their right; that is a humiliation for both.”

Respect Devotion Spouses Inferior Superior

Book:The Home and the World

Source: The Home and the World

“I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your household duties, living your life in the world of household conventions and the drudgery of household tasks - you were not made for that! If we meet, and recognize each other, in the real world, then only will our love be true.”

Love Respect Women Empowerment Spouses Domesticity

Book:The Home and the World

Source: The Home and the World

“My ex-husband, who works for an oil company and lives in Patagonia, tells me that the neighbors are just afraid. I tell him that fascism generally starts with fear and then turns into hatred.”

Fear Hatred Fascism Spouses Ex Husbands

Book:A Sunny Place for Shady People

Source: A Sunny Place for Shady People

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“A riddle: If it was true what she said, that she expected nothing from her husband, why was she forever seething with disappointment?”

Women Marriage Expectations Disappointment Spouses Husbands Contradictions

Book:A Feather on the Breath of God

Source: A Feather on the Breath of God

“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”

“The titles husband and wife must take priority over the titles dad and mom.”

Family Relationship Parenting Priorities Spouses

Book:Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

Source: Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

“A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.”

“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”

“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.”

“Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.”