1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

We shall meet, but as strangers. It is the end of an era. A whole part of my life is torn away.

We were eternally divided. And it somehow seemed strange to me that this had not happened earlier, so dangerous were we to each other.

You die at heart from a withdrawal of love.

The only cure here was death. They were both gone out of my life.

I must return to my freedom which I now realise is something so essential that it makes my love for you seem like death.

Getting through time was rather the problem. The cry of 'Help me!' — but there was no one there.

You see, nobody cares about me except you. You don't know what that's like. You've always had people who cared. You've always had people. I've never had anybody. No wonder I feel frustrated.

I could not see other human beings at present.

She lived in private with her own horror.