"Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind……" — 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 inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)"
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51 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…
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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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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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Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like…
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