1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Don't be hurt by me.""I can't help being hurt —

O death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary guilty ghost out of my careful breast.

You have sometimes thought of going back?""Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.

It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.

I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.

It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.

People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.

Somehow I've always wanted the ones that didn't want me. I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

I suddenly feel . . . as if he might never come. There are 'nevers' in people's lives. People go away, people die, it does happen —