Mental Work Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

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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…
• One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you…
• If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
• The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are…
• Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.
• Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
• Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about…
• A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
• Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in…
• To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's…
• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
• But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

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