Top 5 Widowers Quotes & Sayings

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

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.

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.