Meghan O'Rourke Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• 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 O'Rourke

  Relationship, Letting Go, Loss

  "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.

• 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

  Loss, Faces, Different

• Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Feelings, Might

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

• Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Struggle, Loss, Doe

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

• Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Thinking, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

• 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 O'Rourke

  Loss, Lost Ones, Alive

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.140, Hachette UK

• There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Past, Self

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Struggle, Loss

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

• Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Loss, Tiny, Enormous

• Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Loss, Knowing

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

• 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

  Drama, Grief, Loss

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