12 Quotes by Joan Didion about Grief




  • Author Joan Didion
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    ...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself.

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  • Author Joan Didion
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    we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

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  • Author Joan Didion
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    This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you.And it will happen to you. The details will be different, but it will happen to you.That's what I'm here to tell you.

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    Everyone was in scrubs. I noticed one man who was not in scrubs. “Is this the wife,” he said to the driver. Then he looked at me. “I'm your social worker.” And I guess that was when I knew.That's something else to remember. If they give you a social worker, you're in trouble.

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