What did Meghan O'Rourke mean by: If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer Copy
+ Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, Knowing, Loss, Mother, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Meghan O'Rourke, Enormous, Loss, Tiny, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ One of the ideas I’ve clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, Ideas, Work Out, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, Mother, Stories, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ Sometimes you don’t even know what you want until you find out you can’t have it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, What You Want, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, Writing, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, Command, Disappear, Holy, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
+ Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Meghan O'Rourke, Hell, Seasons, 0 - Meghan O'Rourke Poet and writer
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. - Jeanie (Jenny) Cameron
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
