Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“(I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on… — 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… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“How could it be that I had actually kissed her cheek without enveloping her, without becoming her? How could I at that… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The lover readily imagines that he and his mistress are one. He feels he has love enough for both and that his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“This talk of love means very little. Love is not a feeling. It can be tested. Love is action, it is silence.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--' 'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.” — 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
