1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.

But he's joking, he doesn't mean it.""When Lucas makes a joke he means it.

However one must ask not just, is it amusing, is it exciting, but is it a work of art?

It's all someone else's secret.

The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.

She thought, I shall never tell it to Jack, the strange love which I feel for this doomed man, as if he were a dog lying in the road with a broken back.

Desperate for help, living his life now as a hideous dream, he had told nobody.

The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.

What happened after that, and will be related later, was something entirely unexpected and so awful that Ludens had never spoken about it afterwards to anyone.