Bereavement Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bereavement Darkness Grief Imagination Love Saying goodbye Sorrow Suffering
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
“When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“her skilled use of her body, especially her eyes and hands, when communicating with people enabled millions sense she was a conduit between royalty,… — Tony Walter Copy Share Image
I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the… — Tom Dunne Copy Share Image
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
