Quotes About Young Widows

#1. In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.

David Mitchell

#2. Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Carlos Fuentes

#3. Young widows still bide their time.

Josh Billings

#4. I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news

Sophocles

#5. The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

John Banville

#6. Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce

#7. He's my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little annoying mini-Alexes and mini-Brittanys running around in the future

Simone Elkeles

#8. I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

Nelson Mandela

#9. Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Subhash Chandra

#10. Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

Martin Mayer

#11. Don't: DO THINGS YOU WOULDN'T WANT (YOUR MOTHER, GOD, YOUR CHILDREN) TO KNOW ABOUT.

Anonymous

#12. Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."

Vivien Leigh

#13. Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.

Terry Goodkind

#15. No matter how fair the sun shines,
Still it must set.

Ferdinand Raimund