Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
– Joan Didion
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- Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. – Joan Didion
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- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. – Joan Didion
- The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. – Joan Didion
- [P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. – Joan Didion
- When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. – Joan Didion
- I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. – Joan Didion
- Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar. – Joan Didion
- Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. – Joan Didion
- Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he? – Joan Didion
- Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. – Joan Didion
- I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world. – Joan Didion
- It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. – Joan Didion
- It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. – Joan Didion
- Memories are what you no longer want to remember. – Joan Didion
- He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them – Joan Didion
- She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card. – Joan Didion
- There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. – Joan Didion
- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come. – Joan Didion
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel – Joan Didion
- The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language. – Joan Didion
- I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. – Joan Didion
- …the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult. – Joan Didion
- You don’t need to wish harder, you need to work harder. – Amit Kalantri
- With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life. – Jesse Holdeman
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
- You are alone, I am alone; we don’t get together why we complain so much. – MF Moonzajer
- Those who love, never complain, but those who don’t love, always complain. – Debasish Mridha
- Those who complain never love, those who love, never complain. – Debasish Mridha
- There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,’ Knight said. – Michael Finkel
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If I was alone I’d find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it’d look like I wanted to be alone. – Julie Anne Peters
- Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off. – Joan Marques
- The harder they fall, the harder they become. – Nancy Glynn
- Thinking harder is more important than working harder. – Debasish Mridha
- Your wishes doesn’t come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish. – Amit Kalantri
- Why are some things harder to lose than others? because of love, of course. The more you love something the harder it is to lose. – Ava Dellaira
- When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time – Josh Stern
- If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about yourmistakes, learn from them. – Charles J Sykes