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Life Quotes by Joan Didion
- Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part…
- 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…
- The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
- What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness…
- I lead a very conventional life.
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
- I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
- Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
- My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
- Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is…
- People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
- Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
- Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let…
- Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum…
- The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle