The Nice And The Good Quotes (115 quotes)

“I must admit that I am in a state of utter wretchedness and have been for a long time. I didn't know that such extreme unhappiness could continue for so long.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: depression, iris-murdoch, letter, misery, prolonged, suffering, the-nice-and-the-good, unhappiness

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“Their hands touched, their knees touched. They were both trembling.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: iris-murdoch, lovers, romantic, sexy, the-nice-and-the-good, touch

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“But she felt that she had to see him or she would die.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: absence, desperate, iris-murdoch, love, lovesick, parted, reunion, the-nice-and-the-good

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“I am out of the saga, he thought. He had a heavy sense of being left in total isolation; everyone had withdrawn from him and the person who could most have helped him was pre-empted by another.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: iris-murdoch, isolated, left-out, love-triangle, sad, the-nice-and-the-good, unrequited-love, written-out

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“There's no point in talking it over. It would only make things worse. There's nothing to say. I just love you. That's all of it."

"That's half of it," said Ducane. "Possibly over dinner I might tell you the other half.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: declaration-of-love, dialogue, happy-ending, humor, iris-murdoch, love, romantic, the-nice-and-the-good

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“I am just a past with no present.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: depressed, hopeless, iris-murdoch, sad, the-nice-and-the-good, the-past, the-present

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“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, The Nice and the Good

tags: declaration-of-love, dialogue, falling-in-love, in-love, iris-murdoch, love, romantic, the-nice-and-the-good

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“It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: breaking-apart, breaking-up, iris-murdoch, leaving, sad, the-end, the-nice-and-the-good

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“You are sad."

"I am always sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: depressed, depression, dialogue, iris-murdoch, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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“He felt sad, sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: depressed, iris-murdoch, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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“O death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary guilty ghost out of my careful breast.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: death, dying, ghost, guilty, iris-murdoch, moving-on, passing-on, prayer, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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“Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: death, endurance, iris-murdoch, the-nice-and-the-good

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“Mary held her heart, contracted into a point of agony.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: agony, heart, heartache, heartbreak, iris-murdoch, pain, suffering, the-nice-and-the-good

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“They haven't been standing still in the past.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: change, iris-murdoch, moved-on, the-nice-and-the-good, the-past

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“You have sometimes thought of going back?"

"Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: dialogue, fantasy, impossibility, iris-murdoch, no-return, reality-vs-fantasy, returning, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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“But her heart was hurting her with its violence.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: heart, heartache, heartbreak, hurt, inner-turmoil, iris-murdoch, sad, the-nice-and-the-good, violence

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“The past is gone, it doesn't exist any more.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: gone, iris-murdoch, nonexistent, over, the-nice-and-the-good, the-past

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“Was it here, after all, that everything broke down and descended into a roaring shaft of shattered masks and crumpled rose petals and bloody feathers?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: allusion, descriptive, iris-murdoch, symbolism, the-nice-and-the-good

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“Life can be sudden.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: iris-murdoch, life, sudden, the-nice-and-the-good

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“We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: body, instinct, iris-murdoch, the-nice-and-the-good, thinking, yearnings

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“And she shivered with a dazzled joy.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: dazzled, description, iris-murdoch, joy, the-nice-and-the-good

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“This was the old, the unmistakable state of being in love which she had imagined she would never experience again.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: in-love, iris-murdoch, the-nice-and-the-good

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“There was absolutely nothing that she could do with this huge emotion which she had so suddenly discovered in herself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: emotions, iris-murdoch, powerless, repressed, the-nice-and-the-good, unrequited-love

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“He wanted to take her in his arms, he wanted to be utterly revealed to her, he wanted her to understand.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: intimacy, iris-murdoch, romantic, the-nice-and-the-good, unconditional-love, understanding, vulnerability

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“One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: in-love, iris-murdoch, knowledge, love, terrible, the-nice-and-the-good

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“It's not even like memory. It's all just there."

"All the time, Willy?"

"Every hour, every minute.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: constant, depression, dialogue, iris-murdoch, memory, sad, the-nice-and-the-good, torment

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“Year after year he wondered if he should go back and year after year felt it all recede from him past hope, past endeavour . . . He could not find his way back there.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: impossible, iris-murdoch, no-return, regret, return, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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“I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: iris-murdoch, metaphor, sad, suffering, the-nice-and-the-good

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“Why did I ever leave them, what was I fleeing from? What spoilt scene that I could not then endure?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: fleeing, iris-murdoch, regret, ruined, sad, the-nice-and-the-good, unendurable

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“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, The Nice and the Good

tags: finality, iris-murdoch, never, sad, the-nice-and-the-good, too-late

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