Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you haven't, but that's part of life.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.

We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not like that all the time. Not every moment is dark.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

I know when my parents passed away, I wanted all the support I could get.

I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.