Death Quote by Meghan O'Rourke

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.”

— William Shakespeare

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

— Hugh Leonard

While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Grief is a simple emotion, but its complications can be endless”

— Taya Kyle

“Grief,” she writes, is “a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

— Rashi

“There’s a reason there are seven stages of grief. It takes time for the mind to process tragedy. Grief, true grief, needs the cushion…

— Kaitlin Bevis

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and…

— Anne Lamott

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate…

— Joan Didion