1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.

Sometimes I think he will become quite desperate — with the pain of simply being himself — he might do anything.

Look Moy, see the chimneys, they've lit all the fires, they must have known we were going to try to drown ourselves. And Anax is running on ahead to bring the news.

She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.

And now in her deep heart an even sharper pain was stirring, a pain which would stay with her always.

I am going mad, she thought, I am in some sort of silent raging grief of which I shall die, everything has gone.

All that had seemed impossible, too late, a dream, had suddenly become possible, even natural and inevitable.

These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.

I must think of him as vanished utterly and gone forever.