1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

I feel I'm living on pain, riding on it, like a sea.

In a way it does not matter where I am. In another way where I am is fated.

He felt indestructible because destroyed.

He had lived throughout upon magic, upon romantic love in its fullest sense, and this magic, now that she was gone, seemed sometimes likely to kill him.

It was all very simple. I just loved her. I couldn't stop. I haven't stopped. Oh God.

I've got to see you, I've got to talk about her, I shall go mad.

I ceased some time ago to believe in goodness.

You daren't think, so you live in a dream.

Was it that he had lived too long in his mind and was tired of the scenery?