1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Sorrow can sometimes induce sleep.

He felt as if something had been completed and he would never see any of those people again.

It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.

I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.

Lucas hated other people, and also hated himself.

We all love a glimpse of Lucas, it's a religious experience.

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

He awoke the next morning to an instant consciousness of disaster.

I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.