1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn’t talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

You’re such an agonizer, Bradley. You romanticize art. You’re a masochist about it, you want to suffer, you want to feel that your inability to create is continuously significant.

I don’t like you, I love you. You’re a portent for me, a sign. I’ve always lived by signs.

All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes.

She thought, I am becoming a recluse. Yes, that’s it, that is the way.

I’ve somehow run myself into hell. There must be many entrances.

I need love, I’ve never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.

Literature must always represent a battle between real people and images’.