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Quotes About Emotion

How can I even think of such a fate . . . Better to commit murder.
~ Iris Murdoch
What I really wanted just then was to put Georgie in cold storage. It is unfortunate that other human beings cannot be conveniently immobilized.
~ Iris Murdoch
We all love a glimpse of Lucas, it's a religious experience.
~ Iris Murdoch
Jealousy lasts forever. Bad news for the young.
~ Iris Murdoch
To find someone — oh yes — that is the problem. To have mutual love, that is so difficult indeed.
~ Iris Murdoch
And what is love anyway? Love's all over the mountain where the beautiful go to die no doubt, but I cannot attach much meaning to your idea of such a long-lasting love for someone you lost sight of so long ago. Perhaps it's something you've invented now.
~ Iris Murdoch
I do wish you could be happy. If I thought you could be happy I could simply cease to exist with a sigh of joy.
~ Iris Murdoch
At the very thought he felt a tendency to tremble.
~ Iris Murdoch
What are you thinking, my love, my darling?' 'About you. I was wondering if you could make me happy. It would be fearfully difficult.' 'I'm fearfully clever, and I love you fearfully much.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps 'love' had always been for me an ignis fatuus.
~ Iris Murdoch
Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?
~ Iris Murdoch
Every man is betrayed by his mother.
~ Iris Murdoch
The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.
~ Iris Murdoch
That love all belonged to the elapsed moment.
~ Iris Murdoch
She has lost the instinct for happiness.
~ Iris Murdoch
The loss of her reason did not seem to have made her unhappy
~ Iris Murdoch
One can't whistle up happiness. It's a gift of nature and I haven't got it.
~ Iris Murdoch
He wanted to take her in his arms, he wanted to be utterly revealed to her, he wanted her to understand.
~ Iris Murdoch
One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.
~ Iris Murdoch
Izgubiti nekoga ne zna?i izgubiti samo osobu nego i sve one na?ine i oblike kroz koje se ta osoba izražavala; zato ?ovjek izgubivši voljenu osobu može odjednom otkriti da je izgubio i mnoštvo stvari, slika, stihova, pjesama i mjesta.
~ Iris Murdoch
How could he assess her like this because of something which had happened in the past? The past was never real for Dora. The notion that Paul might keep her past alive to torment her with, now occurred to her for the first time.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm terribly in love with you. But please don't worry about it.
~ Iris Murdoch
Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.
~ Iris Murdoch
I've got to see you, I've got to talk about her, I shall go mad.
~ Iris Murdoch