Iris Murdoch Quotes
- ... where does one person end and another person begin?
- To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
- There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
- Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
- Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
- The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
- We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
- A death is the most terrible of facts.
- The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules…
- Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.
- Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex…
- Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always…
- Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
- Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
- I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
- We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.