1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

A really malicious letter should be read once only and destroyed, or best of all not read at all. These things lodge in the mind.

I'm as lonely as a lunatic.

It seemed to echo away into the hidden spaces and honeycombs of the dark.

The calmness was the final tone of despair.

He thought, I haven't got much longer before some sort of collapse. He could not think if this would be a collapse of mind or of body. Mind and body seemed utterly fused now in cold aching pain, and darkness.

Love is the only justice.

Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?

Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.

Sometimes I just feel so shut in, with all those people and they've all got something while I've got nothing.