Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

I am tired of losing people.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.