Top 40 Widow Quotes

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.

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.

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.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

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.

How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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’.

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!

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.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

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.

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.

A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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.

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?

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

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.

‘Widow’ is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

Madonna’s like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven’t made the widow record.

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.

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.

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.

Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

As a widow and a caregiver and a single mother, I’m living the experience that New Mexicans are.

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.

I’ve had two proposals since I’ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

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.

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.

I get lonely when I’m a Playstation widow.