704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.

Somehow I've always wanted the ones that didn't want me. I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

I suddenly feel . . . as if he might never come. There are 'nevers' in people's lives. People go away, people die, it does happen —

The absence of the loved person is so absolute.

He could go back and take her in his arms. If only he knew how to do this. But they had lost the language of their affections, they had lost the style.

I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.

Ludens experienced, as an extra pain, an intimation of the happiness he might have felt in such a place.

I'm just one long disappointment.

Ludens thought, why can't I do that, why can't I just ask a woman to hold my hand, why can't I ask Franca to!