Blue Quote by Joan Didion

This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end…

— Joan Didion

“Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message…

— Joan Didion

“The French called this time of day 'l'heure bleue.' To the English it was 'the gloaming.' The very word 'gloaming' reverberates, echoes - the…

— Joan Didion

God has given every darkness a light. In the nights we have the Stars and in our dark and hardest moments we have Christ.

— Terry Mark

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

— Cathleen Schine

Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into…

— Joan Didion

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

— John Milton

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars…

— Samuel Johnson

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that…

— Martha Beck

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

— Euripides

Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf