Best quotes by Meghan O'Rourke on Grief

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• ‟ 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.

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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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

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• ‟ This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

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• ‟ 'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

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• ‟ 'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

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