1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Because of what you have done things will happen later which can't possibly be foreseen.

The easiest thing to think was that he was going to die. This was not exactly an intent to commit suicide, though he did consider suicide, it was rather a sense of the impossibility of surviving much longer, whatever he did, whatever he chose. He felt rent apart by an unremitting mental, felt as physical, strain. When he was alone he groaned aloud.

Only let the scene end soon and without any horrors.

With the characteristic cunning of true love, she was already manipulating the future.

Suddenly, as if by the fiat of a wicked fairy, he had been utterly dispossessed.

No! I can't leave him, I'm bound to him, I'm made of him, I am him!

Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.

But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.

Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?