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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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I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my…
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If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor…
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