"Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect……" — Joan Didion
"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 knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."
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204 Quotes by Joan Didion
Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site.
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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More Apprehension Quotes
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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