Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Do not weep for me.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

My son has died of AIDS.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

I was 33 when my father passed away.

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.