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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
– Iris Murdoch

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  1. He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. – Iris Murdoch
  2. Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
  3. Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams. – Iris Murdoch
  4. I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time. – Iris Murdoch
  5. Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. – Iris Murdoch
  6. Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
  7. there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
  8. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch
  9. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
  10. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
  11. I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
  12. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
  13. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
  14. It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. – Iris Murdoch
  15. Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
  16. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. – Iris Murdoch
  17. But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. – Iris Murdoch
  18. Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working. – Iris Murdoch
  19. 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
  20. In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  21. With strength you can move rocks.With faith you can move mountains.With love you can move the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  22. Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move. – Anthony ONeill
  23. Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. – Terry Pratchett
  24. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,while my brain was dark and full – Tina J Richardson
  25. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,while my brain was dark and full – Tina J Richardson
  26. I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid -” if you are afraid, you can’t move forward. – Malala Yousafzai
  27. You see, I was ready to swim deep for youBut you felt like this was skin deep for youNo coffin, but I’d die for youNo coughing, but I’d lie for you – Bandile M Matsenjwa
  28. Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  29. Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid. – Ray Bradbury
  30. I’m afraid of failing. I’m afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I’m afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes. – Victoria Aveyard
  31. We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God. – Jennifer L Lane
  32. I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I’m afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future. – Luffina Lourduraj
  33. Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You ????er. – Augusten Burroughs
  34. It felt dangerous. It felt amazing. It felt like of course the lights were out, because all the electricity in the city was in my veins. – Maggie Hall
  35. Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free. – Tan Redding
  37. being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. – Charles Bukowski
  38. It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers. – Leslea Tash
  39. All grief, anyone’s grief…is the weight of a sleeping child. – Anne Michaels
  40. Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed. – Ilona Andrews

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