Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke

‘Hamlet’ is the best description of grief I’ve read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Describing

Description

Grief

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

Giving

Goodbye

Ideas

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

Mother

Stories

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That’s what makes her a mother.

Mother

Notion

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Falling In Love

Love Story

Stories

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Feelings

Grief

People

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

Believe

Gone

Mother

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don’t think it is HELPING people mourn.

Cynical

People

Thinking

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession – it’s sad that we don’t have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

Cost

Funeral

Stress

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One’s inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one’s public persona.

Disruption

Grief

Persona

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Belief

Believe

Black

Children

Command

Conscious

Cost

Culture

Cynical

Denial

Describing

Description

Differences

Different

Disappear

Disruption

Dream

Each Day

Enormous

Envy

Eye

Faces

Fake

Fall

Falling In Love

Feelings

Flu

Funeral

Giving

Gone

Goodbye

Grace

Grief

Gymnastics

Hands

Hell

Holiday

Holy

Ideas

Intense

Longing

Loss

Love Story

Memories

Might

Mother

Mourn

Notion

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Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke

‘Hamlet’ is the best description of grief I’ve read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That’s what makes her a mother.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don’t think it is HELPING people mourn.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession – it’s sad that we don’t have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One’s inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one’s public persona.

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