1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.

I'd like to to know what it is he's after, I mean, is it an experience or a thought, is it something you'd put in a book, or die for, or die of?

So. The door was open into the dark and he had but to walk through it.

I thought it might make him despair of life, but he has despaired anyway.

How could two such different worlds co-exist, how could they communicate?

I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.

The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.

But there are times of suffering which remain in our lives like black absolutes and are not blotted out. Fortunate are those for whom these black stars shed some sort of light.

Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at.