“The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.’ She” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Death is not the consummation of oneself but just the end of oneself. Before the self vanishes nothing really is, and that… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
