Death Quote by Meghan O'Rourke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.”

“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 most.”

“What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”

“Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying,”

“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”

“It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.”

“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”

“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”

“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.”

“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?”