Marriage Quotes by Iris Murdoch

9 Marriage quotes by Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch’s musings on marriage weave philosophy and tenderness, giving you a compact glimpse into how she sees commitment’s complexities. Though brief, these nine lines capture the depth of her literary voice on partnership.

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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

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A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

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People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

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In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

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Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of…

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there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put…

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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love…

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Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the…

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“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

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emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the…

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I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon…

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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and…

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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…

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being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go…

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We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

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“I'm sorry I was awful. I'm so full of terrors.”

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I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect…

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