Meghan O'rourke Quotes
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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
— Meghan O'Rourke
It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
— Meghan O'Rourke
A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.
— Meghan O'Rourke
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
— Meghan O'Rourke
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
— Meghan O'Rourke
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
— Meghan O'Rourke
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
— Meghan O'Rourke
One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.
— Meghan O'Rourke
There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.
— Meghan O'Rourke
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.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Do you try to look even more adorable every time I see you?
— Meghan O'Brien
Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
— Meghan O'Rourke
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
— Meghan O'Rourke
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
— Meghan O'Rourke
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.
— Meghan O'Rourke
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.
— Meghan O'Rourke
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.
— Meghan O'Rourke
I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
— Meghan O'Rourke
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
— Meghan O'Rourke
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
— Meghan O'Rourke
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
— Meghan O'Rourke
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.
— 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.
— Meghan O'Rourke
A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.
— Meghan O'Rourke
