81 Quotes About Widows

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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