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Life Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or…
- Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul…
- Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
- It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
- The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
- ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of…
- Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
- Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
- We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
- The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
- One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
- I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue…
- One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much…
- He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle