1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Mary did not believe in analysing herself, and she had left vague the notion that sometimes came to her that this anxious unfulfilled sort of loving was the only kind of which she was capable.

She shivered in the sunlight as if it were the ray of a malignant star.

Willy seemed like an inhabitant of some other dimension who could only tenuously communicate with the ordinary world. This would have troubled her less if she had not imagined his other dimension as a place of horror.

In the clairvoyance of this despair he had seen how much his folly had already damaged both of them.

He had ceased to be interested in anyone but himself.

How can we not be dooms to each other?

Maybe there are times when one should welcome defeat, tell it to come right in and sit down.

Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.

Blaise has always lived in a dream world.""We all live in dream worlds," said Monty.