Involuntary Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Involuntary Jealous Jealousy Sin
Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins. — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a… — 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
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
“Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
