1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.

Lately Louise had decided to give up wearing make-up altogether, but had not yet acted upon the decision.

For me, nothing can ever be well again.

Louise thought, what will happen to them — perhaps just this is the beginning of some awful end.

It's madness — ""Madness is where we live now.

Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.

Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.

Sentimentally and in the soul it went on for ages, it still goes on, it goes on and on.

I feel so depressed. I have to be merry and bright while I just want to cry.