Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke
American Poet
Born: 1976
About Day Death Grief Mother You
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 O'Rourke
Grief Better Sadness Flu Thought First Worst Would Would-Be Unpredictable Somehow Steadily Fact Over Days Like How Linear Get Getting Just Then Prepared
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 O'Rourke
Death Home World Mother Word First Half Year Anchor One Word Throughout Had Felt
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 O'Rourke
Death Time You Will Long Say Adjust Gives Idea Goodbye Very Different Anymore Illness Sudden Beloved
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit. Meghan O'Rourke
Mother Brothers Spirit More Like Falls Role Much Who Her
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. Meghan O'Rourke
Life Knowledge History Understanding Seek Had Study Read Been Cultures Taught Whole
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us. Meghan O'Rourke
Our Minds Mysterious Obscure Like Brain Ship Us Sea Conscious
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother. Meghan O'Rourke
Mother Beginning Beyond Makes Any Notion Her
It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength. Meghan O'Rourke
Time Strength Fall Too Spending Worrying Easy About More Talking Vulnerability Female Celebrating Than Them Trap
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 O'Rourke
Death Me Face Lose Own Else Our Recognition Consoling Feel None Least Loss Different Anyone Anyone Else Loved Loved Ones Us Aspect
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. Meghan O'Rourke
Women Grace Gymnastics Tension Performance Between Always Eros
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 O'Rourke
Love Beginning About Tales Talk Go Falling Falling In Love Pinpoint Beginnings Love Stories Stories Moment
I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist. Meghan O'Rourke
I Am Live Collect Perfectionist Also Am Information
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 O'Rourke
Day Mother Thought Dreamed Never Liked She Hallmark Fake Up Holiday Sentiments Deep Expressed Card
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 O'Rourke
Grief Experience Once Private Inexpressible Persona Cannot Public Realized Fully Inner Disruption
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. Meghan O'Rourke
Enormous Once Paradoxical Loss Tiny
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. Meghan O'Rourke
Best Grief Rather Merely Read Because Hamlet Than Describing Description
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on. Meghan O'Rourke
Grief Dramas Chaos Chaotic Static Television Easily Fact Never Absorb Period Known Narrative Loss Friendly Intense Moved Moved On Which Episodic Internal Who Large Appears Largely
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 O'Rourke
Saying Time Day Envy Lost Group Seems Ritual Remembering Support Perfectly Conceived Devoted Friends Person Each Each Day Designation Jewish
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