Joan Didion Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.4, Vintage

• What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?

  Joan Didion

  Night, Light, Blue

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.107, Knopf

• Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

  Joan Didion

  Men, Dying, Left

  Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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