Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.

My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

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

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

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

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief is exhausting.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

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.

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

What's more awful, to me, than blood and guts is the thought of losing those who you love.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Some things you just don't get over.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.