"Suddenly it was fall, the season of death,……" — Meghan O'Rourke
"Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell."
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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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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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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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More Anniversary Quotes
This quote is filed under Anniversary Quotes,
one of 303 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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True love stories never have endings.
— Richard Bach
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Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
— Richard Bach
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
— Honore de Balzac
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So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
— Anne Bancroft
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on…
— Josh Billings
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
— Emily Bronte
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
— Robert Browning
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express…
— Pearl S. Buck
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
— Joseph Campbell
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