Iris Murdoch Quotes
- Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
- Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
- Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
- I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
- The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
- Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
- There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Anything that consoles is fake.
- I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
- In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
- No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
- Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
- Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
- Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
- The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into…