Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
– Iris Murdoch
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- Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
- One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
- One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
- Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams. – Iris Murdoch
- 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
- Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. – Iris Murdoch
- Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
- there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
- 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
- I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch
- 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
- I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
- 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
- Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
- 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
- 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
- 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
- His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. – Joseph Conrad
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim — – Emily inson
- It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement. – Sara Baume
- She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. – Sun Tzu
- When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense,war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy. – Toba Beta
- He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless. – Jessiqua Wittman
- We were strong separately, but when we were together, we were impenetrable. – Tijan
- Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead. – Joshua Ferris
- Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness. – Andr Gide
- There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past. – James Rozoff
- Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go. – Darnell Lamont Walker
- nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you – Adam Johnson
- All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness. – Clive Barker
- There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. – Sarah J Maas
- Be the best you can be for yourself! – Susan Marie Murdoch
- My life’s a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits. – Emily Murdoch
- My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger. – Emily Murdoch
- @The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series. – Maureen Jennings