704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

And she looked at her life and seemed to understand it and to grieve over it as if it were already over.

That love all belonged to the elapsed moment.

She felt intense disappointment, even a kind of guilt, as if she had missed something, perhaps forever. He had been there, she could have spoken to him. Could she call out now, cry his name? It was impossible.

Deep, deepest inside his wounded heart. he felt the new pain, the pain which would now travel with him always.

Yet the love is there, the love is there — only it's as if it's so wounded it has curled up and gone into a black hole.

It had occurred, it had happened, and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.

A great sword pierced Sefton's heart. She too had loved Lucas with her own kind of deep secret love, and it seemed to her in this moment that, if he had asked her, she would have gone with him anywhere.

I've felt so sad for years about you. My love for you has always had a sad face.

Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.