1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

A marriage is a very secret place.

What a mystery a marriage was. What a strange and violent world, the world of matrimony. I was glad to be outside it. The idea of it filled me with a sort of queasy pity.

Bradley, my marriage is over. I think my life is probably over. What a poor affair it has been.

Little pictures out of hell.

She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short-lived and die.

You are sad.""I am always sad.

It's not even like memory. It's all just there.""All the time, Willy?""Every hour, every minute.

I must admit that I am in a state of utter wretchedness and have been for a long time. I didn't know that such extreme unhappiness could continue for so long.

He felt irritably dissatisfied with himself. Then his old huge familiar misery gradually returned like an old friend.