Iris Murdoch: Quotes about love

Iris Murdoch was British writer and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Iris Murdoch book The Bell

The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Iris Murdoch

"The Sublime and the Good", in the Chicago Review, Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Autumn 1959) p. 51.
Source: Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.”

Iris Murdoch book The Sea, the Sea

Source: The Sea, the Sea