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Meghan ORourke Quotes

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It’s like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have Picture Quote #1

I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn’t, necessarily Picture Quote #1

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person Picture Quote #1

My mother never liked Mother’s Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn’t be expressed with a card Picture Quote #1

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone Picture Quote #1

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me Picture Quote #1

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it’s also to feel, quite powerfully, that you’re not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow Picture Quote #1

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore Picture Quote #1

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One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don’t just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most Picture Quote #1

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief Picture Quote #1

Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss Picture Quote #1

Loss doesn’t feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death Picture Quote #1

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable Picture Quote #1

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One’s inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one’s public persona Picture Quote #1

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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn’t just sadness, and it wasn’t linear. Somehow I’d thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That’s not how it was Picture Quote #1

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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It’s like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes (Meghan ORourke Quotes) 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 ORourke Quotes) After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have (Meghan ORourke Quotes) I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn’t, necessarily. (Meghan ORourke Quotes) Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial. (Meghan ORourke Quotes) 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 ORourke Quotes) I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person. (Meghan ORourke Quotes) My mother never liked Mother’s Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn’t be expressed with a card (Meghan ORourke Quotes) I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone (Meghan ORourke Quotes) Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me (Meghan ORourke Quotes) To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it’s also to feel, quite powerfully, that you’re not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow (Meghan ORourke Quotes) A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore (Meghan ORourke Quotes) One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don’t just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most (Meghan ORourke Quotes) What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief (Meghan ORourke Quotes) Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss (Meghan ORourke Quotes) Loss doesn’t feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death (Meghan ORourke Quotes) A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable (Meghan ORourke Quotes) 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 ORourke Quotes) But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone (Meghan ORourke Quotes) 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 ORourke Quotes) I wasn’t prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn’t just sadness, and it wasn’t linear. Somehow I’d thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That’s not how it was (Meghan ORourke Quotes)