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Meghan O'Rourke has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group…
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One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you…
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If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
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The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are…
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Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.
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Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
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Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about…
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in…
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To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's…
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And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which…
— Matthew Arnold
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group…
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to…
— Winston Churchill
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Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and…
— Lewis Mumford
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
— Emily Dickinson
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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
— Jane Austen
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If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…
— Wendell Berry
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He,…
— Emily Dickinson
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I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you…
— Steve Maraboli
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