Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourkeis an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
Meghan O'Rourke quotes about
dog memories grief
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.
falling-in-love stories love-story
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.
goodbye ideas giving
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.
ideas work-out trying
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
grief feelings different
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
grief description describing
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
grief men play
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
profound dying difficult-experiences
After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.
loss faces different
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.
self talent conscious
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
grief over-you would-be
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.
religious children two
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
information perfectionist
I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
loss tiny enormous
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.