704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.

He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes.

I'm sorry I was awful. I'm so full of terrors.

Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible.

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations.

What emotion had so invaded me? Fear? It is sometimes curiously difficult to name the emotion from which one suffers. The naming of it is sometimes unimportant, sometimes crucial.

And now she had run into an emptiness more final than any words of rejection. He was gone and would make himself a stranger to her for ever.

Starting this relationship seems to me one of the better things you've ever done, however it ends.""We can't separate it from how it ends.

His sudden decision not to see her any more was utterly incomprehensible to the girl, it was a death sentence from a hidden authority for an unknown crime. Nothing had changed, and then there was suddenly this.