Joan Didion Quotes about Grieving

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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

Joan Didion

Grieving, Missing, World

Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.192, Vintage

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Joan Didion

Grieving, Impulse, Persons

Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that’s your first concern.

Joan Didion

Strong, Sorry, Grieving

"National Book Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

Joan Didion Quotes about Grieving

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