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Quotes About Acceptance

Perhaps he has realised now that he's trapped here and has to suffer with us and become mortal and die.
~ Iris Murdoch
I have battered destructively and in vain upon the mystery of someone else's life and must cease at last.
~ Iris Murdoch
Here I am, after all, welcome home, I'm yours. To which Henry replied: When I wanted you you were not mine, when I needed you you rejected me. Why should I cherish you now?
~ Iris Murdoch
I must think of him as vanished utterly and gone forever.
~ Iris Murdoch
Don't be hurt by me. I can't help being hurt —
~ Iris Murdoch
But by now anything was better than hope.
~ Iris Murdoch
Come in, defeat, come in and make yourself at home.
~ Iris Murdoch
If the fates were arranging things, it was better to leave it entirely to them.
~ Iris Murdoch
Send anger and hate away. Love them and let them walk on you.
~ Iris Murdoch
I don't know what love can do for the terrible things of life.
~ Iris Murdoch
Only let the scene end soon and without any horrors.
~ Iris Murdoch
But he was surrendered, they had surrendered him, into the power of death.
~ Iris Murdoch
Onurunuzu kaybetmenize sebep olan insanlar? kolay affedemiyorsunuz.
~ Iris Murdoch
Theo wanted to call him back. But then he thought, oh let him go, there's no mending a fruitless love, it just has to be endured.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.
~ Iris Murdoch
And she looked at her life and seemed to understand it and to grieve over it as if it were already over.
~ Iris Murdoch
The loss of her reason did not seem to have made her unhappy
~ Iris Murdoch
She did not really mind not altogether enjoying it in bed.
~ Iris Murdoch
It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.
~ Iris Murdoch
But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem .
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm totally unworthy of this love which you are offering to me.
~ Iris Murdoch
Of course, my dear, I cannot, how could I, altogether regret what has happened.
~ Iris Murdoch
But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.
~ Iris Murdoch
I remained, leaning a little on her shoulder, my cheek touching her crown of golden hair. It was fading into grey. One day, without having noticed the transition, I would see that it was gold no longer.
~ Iris Murdoch