Quote by

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.
– Iris Murdoch

Related Quotes:

  1. One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
  2. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
  3. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
  4. Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams. – Iris Murdoch
  5. 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
  6. Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. – Iris Murdoch
  7. Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
  8. there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
  9. 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
  10. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch
  11. 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
  12. I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
  13. 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
  14. Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. My life’s a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits. – Emily Murdoch
  19. When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. – Ann Brashares
  20. All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment. – Matthew Donnelly
  21. If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude. – Matthew Donnelly
  22. If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  23. Life is made of the past, present and the future. We’re shaped by our past, and we’re shaping our future with our present. – Ibrahim Emile
  24. To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh
  25. Hope is Future and Future is present ,Present is past and Past is Mystery – Hamza Khan Takkar
  26. 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
  27. That’s one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past. – James A Owen
  28. Learn from the past but don’t forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life. – Debasish Mridha
  29. We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
  30. We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
  31. Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life. – Debasish Mridha
  32. I know I’ll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I’ll hold, I’ll hold. I know. – Sara Quin
  33. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment! – Debasish Mridha
  34. You must be present in the present to make it a present. – RVM
  35. You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM – RVM
  36. Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  38. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  39. And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles. – CS Lewis
  40. I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting. – Alexandre Dumas

More Quotes

, , , , , , , ,