704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

How fearful that dark shadow is when we catch sight of it in the life of another. No wonder those at whom that black arrow is aimed so often turn and flee. How unendurable it can be, the love another bears us. I would never persecute my darling with that dread knowledge. From now onward until the world ended everything must remain, although utterly changed, exactly as it was before.

There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.

Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.

I am really in love and it's a terrible experience.

But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.

I've thought about nothing else but you.

I'm totally unworthy of this love which you are offering to me.

I felt such a stranger there, like a poor lodger. One must be with one's own people.

She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.