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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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War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
— Charles Edward Montague
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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to…
— Sun Tzu
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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the…
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Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and…
— Arnold Haultain
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The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
— Sun Tzu
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Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It…
— Herman Melville
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from…
— Pete Souza
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If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider…
— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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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…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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