1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.

But by now anything was better than hope.

Charles, don't destroy yourself," said James. "Why are you always so intent on breaking everything that surrounds and supports you?

But I wanted to make what was terrible so much worse so as to be sure that it was fatal; like Hartley protecting herself by thinking I must hate her.

There was a sort of grey dripping figure that kept trying to rise up in my mind and which I ruthlessly violently banished.

How soon we cover up the horror of death and loss, if we can, with almost any sort of explanation, as if we had to justify the very fate which had maimed us.

They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.

To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain?

She was a part, an evidence, of some pure uncracked unfissured confidence in the good which was never there for me again.