Widows Quotes - Page 8

• There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

  Lisa Belkin

  Children, Pain, Grieving

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• [T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

  Alexander Herzen

  World, Heirs, Hmmm

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• A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, White Man, Age

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• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mother, Sweet, War

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• WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Character, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2540, Delphi Classics

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• The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

  Guru Nanak

  Pain, Soul, Ignorant

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• He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

  Guru Nanak

  Mean, Son, Night

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• If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Men, Issues

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• If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Son, Bears

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• When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Father, Law

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• 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

  Law, Wife, Giving

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Numbers, Care

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• Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Two, Work Out, Purpose

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.46, Hendrickson Publishers

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• It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Military, Wife, Soldier

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

  Lionel

  Powerful, Black, May

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• The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

  Guru Nanak

  Soul, Suffering, Sorrow

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

  Samuel Richardson

  Lovers, Refusal, Explicit

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• 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

  Interesting, Black, Spiders

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• Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.

  Chath Piersath

  Husband, Differences, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their oral histories, I'm taking a step back to do my own art book and visual work.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Book, Son

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but they were basically intelectuals: they were people who were doing critical, geopolitical analysis, talking about the decisions of the king were going to lead to destruction; condemning inmorality, calling for justice for widows and orphans. What we would call dissident intelectuals. Were they nicely treated? No, they were driven into the desert, they were imprisoned, they were denounced. They were intelectuals who conformed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Mean, Talking

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

  Sho Baraka

  Scripture, Poor, Outcast

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Race, Hopeful

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

  Chath Piersath

  Three, Generations, Grew Up

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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