1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

What follows is ambiguous and sometimes tortuously told. Man's searchings and his strugglings are ambiguous and vowed to hidden ways. Those who live by that dark light will understand.

We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.

I'm not a lucky person who makes radiant decisions which are obviously right.

Perhaps after all not to have been born is best. How near the human soul must be to nothingness if it can be so tossed.

But oh — time has become such a torture, a slow torture. One tries to capture a piece of time that lies ahead and is full of light . . . but thinking about that just makes this awful black time even blacker.

I just don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that whatever it is it's got to happen. Next week.

Now that the doors of possibility had magically opened one after the other, Ludens realised how much comfort he had derived from uncertainty.