Joan Didion Grieving Quotations

Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.