1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

If the fates were arranging things, it was better to leave it entirely to them.

How much harm, eddying outward in fateful circles, Clement was beginning to foresee.

The place was still there, present in the sunshine, instead of being hidden far away in darkness in the confines of some tragic opera.

I don't know what love can do for the terrible things of life.

To find someone — oh yes — that is the problem. To have mutual love, that is so difficult indeed.

He lay on his back listening to his mother's quiet snoring and thinking how increasingly awful his life was becoming. It was as if he were being squeezed out of the world.

Oh why is she going away just when I want so much to be with her! She is the answer to the riddle of my life.

It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.

You just seem to have folded up the future.""It is folded up.