Joan Didion Quotes About Grieving

Quotes about: Grieving

• 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

• Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Ocean, Cutting

• 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.

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