Joan Didion Quotes about Grief

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Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Joan Didion

Grief, Turns, Magical Thinking

Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.58, Vintage

Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Joan Didion

Distance, Grief, Eye

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 19, 2013

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Joan Didion

Crazy, Grief, Thinking

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Joan Didion

Grief

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

Joan Didion

Grief, Interesting, Sanity

Joan Didion Quotes about Grief

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