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Quotes About Commitment

Well, you won't abandon me, will you. Don't be silly, Ludens, you are buckled to my heart.
~ Iris Murdoch
And this great love makes you both ruthless .
~ Iris Murdoch
But whatever she was I loved her and was committed to her and had always been, here and out beyond the stars, those stars behind stars behind stars which I had seen that night when I lay on the rocks and the golden sky slowly turned the universe inside out.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is unfortunately for us both also the truth that I love you and only you utterly and permanently and to distraction.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's not so easy. What isn't? To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing.
~ Iris Murdoch
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
~ Iris Murdoch
He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way.
~ Iris Murdoch
Are we not somehow compelled by love? I shall not let one day pass without giving you the assurance of mine. Surely there is a future for us together. I am yours yours yours.
~ Iris Murdoch
There are eternal bonds which are made in registry offices and in churches, there are eternal bonds which are made in other and stranger and more terrible ways.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm falling in love with you again, most terribly in love. I've never been out of love with you, never for a second.
~ Iris Murdoch
I love you, I want you, I'd die for you —
~ Iris Murdoch
I was asked rather suddenly to join a delegation going to China, early October (alas John couldn't come because of Oxford term). (Another member was David Attenborough, the very nice animal TV man.)
~ Iris Murdoch
There had been a slaughter of all my other interests, and upon the strange white open scene of the future only one thing remained.
~ Iris Murdoch
She committed her energies to the Labour Party in 1944 but expressed disappointment with its leaders, complaining to David Hicks in May of 'the usual lack of unity and intelligent leadership on the left'. To her surprise and delight, however, the Labour Party swept to victory in July 1945.
~ Iris Murdoch
Starting this relationship seems to me one of the better things you've ever done, however it ends. We can't separate it from how it ends.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'll look after you, I'll go with you anywhere, I won't ever leave you.
~ Iris Murdoch
Pavydas gimsta drauge su meile, bet ne visuomet drauge numiršta.
~ Iris Murdoch
Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things.
~ Iris Murdoch
Why have you LEFT POLITICS? LEFT POLITICS needs you!
~ Iris Murdoch
I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.
~ Iris Murdoch
Society conspires to make a newly wed couple feel virtuous. Marriage is a symbol of goodness, though it is only a symbol.
~ Iris Murdoch
She had not even framed the idea of happiness in connection with her marriage
~ Iris Murdoch
I did not harbour intelligent doubts about whether Hartley would go on loving me, naturally I knew that she was mine forever. But as we closed our eyes upon tears of joy there was cosmic dread.
~ Iris Murdoch
But with her I would have been faithful, with her my whole life would have been different, less rootless, less empty.
~ Iris Murdoch