What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someoneβs company you love them.
Iris MurdochRead
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Forgetting someone's charm can lead to falling out of love.
This quote suggests that the end of romantic feelings often stems from a diminishing appreciation of the positive qualities that initially attracted someone. When we forget the charm and uniqueness of a partner, our emotional connection can fade, indicating the importance of mindfulness and remembering the aspects of love that initially brought us together.
Themes
LoveCharmForgettingRelationshipsEmotional Connection
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a relationship counseling session to emphasize the importance of appreciating your partner.
More from Iris Murdoch
All quotes βThe bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Iris MurdochRead
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
Iris MurdochRead
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris MurdochRead
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris MurdochRead
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris MurdochRead
Similar quotes
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
RajneeshRead
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Anais NinRead
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Michael JacksonRead
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
T. S. EliotRead
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sam LevensonRead
Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.
Marianne WilliamsonRead