Joan Didion Quotes About Loss

• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Loss, Sky

  Joan Didion (1968). "Caminando hacia Belén"

• 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 a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Daughter, Lonely

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

• Los autores de cuadernos privados son una raza completamente diferente, solitarios y resistentes reorganizadores de cosas, ansiosos descontentos, niños afligidos aparentemente al nacer con algún presentimiento de pérdida.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Lonely, Children

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

• somos seres mortales imperfectos, conscientes de esa mortalidad aunque la alejemos, fracasados por nuestra propia complicación, tan cableados que cuando lloramos nuestras pérdidas también lloramos, para bien o para mal, a nosotros mismos. como éramos. como ya no somos. como algún día no seremos en absoluto.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, Bereavement

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

• In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Absence, Natural

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.89, Zola Books

• I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part . . . I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control.

  Joan Didion

  Crazy, Mean, Loss

• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, California, Uneasy

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.125, Zola Books

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