1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

These young people have got to suffer, we can't save them from it —

I'm not young. I've never had any youth.

It is necessary at this point to recount what actually occurred, as opposed to what was generally supposed to have occurred, on that terrible evening when Lucas killed a man.

He's had a bloody awful childhood. Like I had. Those things get passed on and on.

There is a time limit to how long a spirited young person can be kept in cold storage.

I don't think she's had much of a life.""Well, a life is a life.""What does that mean?""One never knows. I daresay most lives are rotten. It's only when one's young one expects otherwise.

What larks we had," said James. "When?""When we were young."I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.

Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one's first love?