1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.

Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.

Of course I love Arnold, but I can hate him too, and it can go along with love that one never forgives certain things.

The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.

The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)

For the moment however behold me sitting with Priscilla and Francis. A domestic interior. It is about ten o'clock in the evening and the curtains are drawn.

But what words exactly did he use? People who aren't writers never describe things exactly.

What dangerous machines letters are. Perhaps it is as well that they are going out of fashion. A letter can be endlessly reread and reinterpreted, it stirs imagination and fantasy, it persists, it is red-hot evidence. It was a long time since I had received anything resembling a love letter.

I know people can be awful dooms for each other.