What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someoneโs company you love them.
Iris Murdochfor most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
Iris MurdochTo lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.
Iris Murdoch