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Quotes About Attachment

No! I can't leave him, I'm bound to him, I'm made of him, I am him!
~ Iris Murdoch
I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom.
~ Iris Murdoch
We may love our chains and our stripes too.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps the crime was that of letting himself be loved so much more than he loved.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's terrible that one doesn't love people forever.
~ Iris Murdoch
Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.
~ Iris Murdoch
She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short-lived and die.
~ Iris Murdoch
I can't see how anything can ever happen to us — I mean, I feel as if, if we leave this place, we shall crumble to pieces.
~ Iris Murdoch
I have never lived in Ireland, though I retain a sentimental sense of connexion with that poor bitch of a country.
~ 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
One morning, one day, perhaps soon, she would come to him and find him gone; and she knew how much she did not want to see him die, and yet how much she also wished that he might die holding her hand. These thoughts induced tears, which he must not see; and she tried not to think too much about the terrible mystery which was to be enacted . . .
~ Iris Murdoch
She thought, I shall never tell it to Jack, the strange love which I feel for this doomed man, as if he were a dog lying in the road with a broken back.
~ Iris Murdoch
I can't believe in your other attachment.
~ 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
I'm terribly in love with you. But please don't worry about it.
~ Iris Murdoch
Guilt is one way of attaching a meaning to a death. We want to find a meaning. It lessens the pain.
~ Iris Murdoch
Hasta edici bir yoksunluk duygusu yakama yap???yor. Bir insan?, gerçekten tan?mad???m?z birini gözden ?rakken sevmek ya da ondan nefret etmek çok kolay ve ben bu konuda uzman?m.
~ Irvine Welsh
Contigo lo son todas, colega», le replico, entrando en un juego muy viejo. «¿Te acuerdas de la chica de la casa okupa de Shepherd's Bush? Lorraine, de Leicester. Te partió el corazón. Te cuelgas demasiado, colega, eso es lo que te pasa.»
~ Irvine Welsh
I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.
~ Isabel Allende
Si escribo algo, temo que suceda, si amo demasiado a alguien temo perderlo; sin embargo no puedo dejar de escribir ni de amar...
~ Isabel Allende
Take note: If little by little you stop loving me, I'll stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me Don't come looking for me, I'll already have forgotten you. —PABLO NERUDA "If you forget me" THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES
~ Isabel Allende
A los ocho años se había enamorado de Ichimei con la intensidad de los amores de la infancia y de Nathaniel con el amor sereno de la vejez.
~ Isabel Allende
After love, the worst fixation is gold
~ Isabel Allende
Non me ne potevo andare perché lontana da questa terra sarei stata come gli alberi che tagliano a Natale, quei poveri pini senza radici che durano un po di tempo e poi muoiono.
~ Isabel Allende