1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Moy felt something snap inside her as if her heart had snapped. The heart-string, she thought — what is the heart-string?

Moy thought, I shall make no more masks, something is over forever. Anyway, she thought, this time next year I shall probably be dead.

How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.

He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.

Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?

Lucas continued, speaking pensively in a dreamy tone, "The painters, you know, the painters, what they did for Christianity!

The human mind is a weird place.

How had this weird idea been conceived, how had it grown until it seemed inevitable?

Moreover, and of course, she loved him; but in Sefton's stern code her love had always been chained up, and howled fruitlessly, as indeed it did now.