1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

It was like a comedy by Shakespeare. All the ends of the story were being bound up in a good way.

I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.

Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?

Oh if only only only we could be happy and ordinary like other people.

He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.

Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.

Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.

He looked so sad. I never saw him look sad before, he was always so superior, everywhere the king. You once called him a god from elsewhere who had lost his way.

He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.