"A mother is a story with no beginning.……" — Meghan O'Rourke
"A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her."
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Meghan O'Rourke
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51 Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke has 51 quotes on this site.
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics.…
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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