"We look for the sermon in the suicide,……" — Joan Didion
"We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices."
—
Joan Didion
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
204 Quotes by Joan Didion
Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
-
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
-
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
-
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
-
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
-
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
-
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
-
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
-
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
-
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
-
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
-
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
See all 204 quotes by Joan Didion »
More Choices Quotes
This quote is filed under Choices Quotes,
one of 6,144 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
-
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
-
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
— Lance Armstrong
-
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
-
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
-
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
See all 6,144 Choices Quotes »