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“When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.”

Looks Doe Lasts Darkness Sorrow Moon Remains Endure Clouds Acquire Admiration Transparent Covering Garments Beholder Widowhood

Author:Augustus William Hare

“When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.”

Ifs Mother Father Social Sorrow Bigger Died Divorced Mother Died Widowhood

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

People Ifs Love Two Ends Breakup Afternoon Love Each Other Widows Good Wife Widowhood Farewell To Arms

Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“[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.”

Art Law Religious Painting Divorce Defense Lust Despise Widowhood After Divorce

Author:Tertullian

“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.”

Source: The Letters of Queen Victoria

“He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.”

Love Mind Long Action Past Courses Evil Interest Liberty Wife Good And Evil Companion Sentiments Continuity Anticipate Suspended Hopes And Fears Widowhood Widowed Widowers

Book:A Johnson Sampler

Source: A Johnson Sampler

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

Should Would Be Widowhood

Book:Espresso Tales

Source: Espresso Tales

“I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.”

Believe Belief I Believe Don't Believe I Believe In Divorce Memorable Widowhood

Author:Carolyn Green

“Widow. The word consumes itself.”

Widows Widowhood Widowed Widowers

Author:Sylvia Plath

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

Two Class Divided Widows Relieved Widowhood

Book:William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft

Source: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft

“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.”

Ifs Persons Earth Easy Forget Poor Duty Dear Uncles Widowhood

Book:The works: With a biographical sketch

Source: The works: With a biographical sketch

“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.”

War Cities Fields Army Prison Hunger Ruins Hospitals Troops Ashes Vengeance Orphanage Widowhood

Author:Clara Barton