Losing a spouse is a profoundly personal and often heart-wrenching experience, leaving an indelible mark on one’s life journey. In moments of grief and solitude, words have the power to provide solace, understanding, and even a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness. Widowhood is a journey fraught with a spectrum of emotions grief, loneliness, resilience, and eventual acceptance. Through the ages, poets, authors, and everyday individuals have sought to encapsulate the complexities of this experience through poignant widow quotes, offering solace and companionship to those navigating the turbulent waters of loss.
Within the lines of these widow quotes lies a reservoir of empathy, wisdom, and shared experiences. Whether penned by renowned figures or whispered in quiet moments of reflection, these words carry the weight of understanding and empathy for the unique journey of widowhood. As beacons of light in the midst of sorrow, they remind us that we are not alone in our struggles and that healing is a journey paved with both tears and triumphs. Below, you’ll find an assortment of widow quotes, each a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. Feel free to draw inspiration, find comfort, or simply reflect on the profound truths encapsulated within these words.
I read ‘Scarlett’ recently, and that was a killer comic book. The ‘Black Widow’ was pretty rockin’. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin’. Stana Katic
I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond’s wife, his widow. I’ve seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It’s hard for them to come see the show. It’s still hard. Reba McEntire
I’m part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains – in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief? Patti Davis
Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime. Roger Morris
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. A. N. Wilson
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn’t understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. David Antin
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. Dolores Ibarruri
For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well. Cherie Blair
Since I’ve got on the Internet, it’s opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she’s an Internet widow. Mick Ralphs
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King’s dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public. Morris Dees
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln’s charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. Dave Obey
For a woman who’s a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I’m surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored. Blythe Danner
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power. Gloria Steinem
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It’s so wonderful, going to bed. Joyce Carol Oates
Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat. Noam Chomsky
The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don’t really feel that way. I have higher confidence in life after that transition. That’s my thought. That’s how I feel. I want to keep him alive. Rita Marley
My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position. Gabriel Luna
I get lonely when I’m a Playstation widow. Ashley Judd
Widow. The word consumes itself. Sylvia Plath
A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. Samuel Richardson
As a widow and a caregiver and a single mother, I’m living the experience that New Mexicans are. Michelle Lujan Grisham
I’m ultimately a widow and a single mother, who’s not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it’s freaky. Courtney Love
When you lose a spouse, you’re a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you’re an orphan. When you lose a child, there’s no word in the English language for that position, that place that you’re left. Frances McDormand
I was in Hyderabad shooting for a Telugu film with Mahesh Babu when Aamir called, saying he wanted me to play the widow Jwala in ‘Mangal Pandey.’ Amisha Patel
Here’s an interesting thing about L.A. – it’s overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes. Dominic Monaghan
Black Widow’ is definitely the darker part of me. This album is about finding the weakness inside and turning it into strength. It’s about being reborn, setting yourself free and realizing the balance in everything – the dark and the light. Maria Brink
‘The Count’ wasn’t a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn’t put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow’s peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux. Joe Flaherty
I have a very interesting story to tell, and people always want to hear about it. They know I’m a 9/11 widow, and I always get comments on that and being an actor and raising my daughters by myself. LaChanze
Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate. Jan Schakowsky
My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet ‘La Fille Mal Gardee.’ She’s a crazy social climbing woman trying to marry off her daughter to the wealthy town idiot. And in the middle of the show, she gets to perform a clog dance. I loved it. Jinkx Monsoon
My landlady, who is only a tailor’s widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. Karl Philipp Moritz
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven’t made the widow record. Courtney Love
I think ‘The Avengers’ is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function. Kelly Sue DeConnick
I’ve certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I’m never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that’s not what identifies me. You know, my life isn’t just about that. Faith Evans
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself? Ferdinand Marcos
Madonna’s like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear. Peter Hook
Black Widow’ is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light and darkness. She becomes this poised and powerful creature. That’s the album. Maria Brink
I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders. Rae Carson
You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in the 1940s in a rural village in West Africa after becoming a young widow. To support her family, she made natural skin and hair care preparations and sold them primarily to missionaries and villagers. Richelieu Dennis
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father’s sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me. Derek Walcott
When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked. Lynn Good
My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children. Arthur Lewis
The success of ‘The Widow’ meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a completely different writing experience. Not to say I haven’t enjoyed writing ‘The Child,’ but I confess there were times when I felt as if I was wrenching it out of my body with bloodied fingernails! Fiona Barton
Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. Aubrey de Vere
One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after ‘Officer’ was ‘Sadat,’ a role for which Anwar Sadat’s widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East. Louis Gossett, Jr.
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything’s going to fall apart. Joyce Carol Oates
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me. Courtney Love
‘Widow’ is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that. Eve Arden
There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people consider Lincoln our greatest president ever and the fact that he was also a man assassinated at the age of 56 and had a widow with mental problems is what makes it all so fascinating. Michael Beschloss
At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law – like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow. Alber Elbaz
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women – however well intentioned originally – have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. Martha Griffiths
I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That’s perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn’t have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah. Neil Marshall
I have an aunt named Ida. She’s the widow of my late Uncle Basil, nearly 100 years old, and very religious, and has managed to live her extremely long and virtuous life out of the pitiless public spotlight. Neil Macdonald
It’s good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night. Ruth Westheimer
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow? Jackie Kennedy
I was just a toddler when my dad died in a car crash. With my mum, Eunice, being a young widow with a large family, she really struggled money-wise. Bob Mortimer
I’ve been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather’s farm where we didn’t know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. Kary Mullis
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you – but I’m not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that. Emmylou Harris
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. Joyce Carol Oates
I think it’s not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her. Salma Hayek
I’ve had two proposals since I’ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. Ruth Rendell
The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first ‘Spiderman’ game as well as ‘Fantastic Four,’ and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative. Margaret Stohl
I got so lucky on my ‘Red Widow’ cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It’s a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don’t know how that happened. Melissa Rosenberg
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. William Adams
Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is – from Black Widow to Han Solo – is the first and most important hurdle for me to cross in any work of fiction. Marjorie Liu
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy’s widow is still alive, and she respected that. Morley Safer
I was a campaign widow. Laura Moser
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. Charles Perrault
I can’t think whether I’ve actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I’ve interviewed members of the families of people who’ve been accused of things. Fiona Barton
When I wrote ‘The Pregnant Widow’ three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, ‘The Rachel Papers,’ because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn’t finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak. Martin Amis
I have been a daughter, a bride, a mother, a divorcee, a widow, a single mother, a grandmother, a breadwinner, and, ultimately a survivor. Lorrie Morgan
