Joan Didion Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me.

  Joan Didion

  Regret, Eye, Men

• It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Afterlife, White

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.156, Vintage

• [O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

  Joan Didion

  Blessing, Twenties, Three

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 07, 2011

• Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

  Joan Didion

  Events, Matter, Aging

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.134, Vintage

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