"The people we most love do become a……" — Meghan O'Rourke
"The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created."
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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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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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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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The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never…
— David Attenborough
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they…
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics…
— Michele Bachmann
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Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.
— Michele Bachmann
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place…
— Michael Badnarik
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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