Chaos Quote by Meghan O'Rourke

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

“Watching someone in the throes of raw grief is a terrible thing; the act of watching feels violent, intrusive, a violation. Yet we do…

— Paula Hawkins

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it…

— John Irving

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,”…

— Sol Luckman

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

— Meghan O'Rourke

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

— Susanne Bier

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on…

— Jodi Picoult

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

— William Shakespeare

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And…

— Jodi Picoult

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

— Gates McFadden

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its…

— Arthur Golden

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

— Hugh Leonard