Joan Didion Quotes

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

I want a woman that wants me to take care of myself because truly, that tells a lot about you. And if you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of a woman? How can you take care of kids?

No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

Compassion and love, that's all.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.