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Quotes About Relationship

He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, 'another place'.
~ Iris Murdoch
I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom.
~ Iris Murdoch
And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two.
~ Iris Murdoch
I saw . . . what I've really know all along, that you are my truth. For me you are the way the truth and the life. Only here can I be totally myself.
~ Iris Murdoch
Oh God, that conversation last night or this morning or whenever that devil-ridden scrap of nightmare had been. How could two rational beings go on and on simply saying the same awful things to each other week after week, month after month?
~ Iris Murdoch
He was not notably vertebrate and could hardly look after himself, so how could he look after Crystal?
~ Iris Murdoch
I want you to be able to see me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.
~ Iris Murdoch
How can we not be dooms to each other?
~ Iris Murdoch
He could go back and take her in his arms. If only he knew how to do this. But they had lost the language of their affections, they had lost the style.
~ Iris Murdoch
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart, was something I had not experienced with any other woman.
~ 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
We just drifted apart . . . I began to find his company extremely tiring . It was extremely tiring, but we were all addicted to it.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.
~ Iris Murdoch
He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was attentive but impersonal, and esteemed rather than loved.
~ Iris Murdoch
With the characteristic cunning of true love, she was already manipulating the future.
~ Iris Murdoch
There was as much emotion generated between them now as if they had been lovers.
~ Iris Murdoch
He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes.
~ Iris Murdoch
Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.
~ Iris Murdoch
Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?
~ 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
A woman in love is a great spiritual force.
~ Iris Murdoch
Ludens was continually aware of his father's distress.
~ Iris Murdoch
Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.
~ Iris Murdoch