Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.