"'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose……" — Meghan O'Rourke
"'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly."
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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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More Deemed Quotes
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
— Tony Campolo
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause…
— John Foxe
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Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of…
— John Brown
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I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
— John Brown
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
— St. Jerome
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their…
— James Bryce
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I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting…
— Herman Melville
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Unknown Author
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