1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.

It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams.

The apparent scene is slowly falling to pieces revealing the reality behind.

It had all been quite uncannily painless. I was left with a sense of not having suffered enough. Only sometimes in dreams did I experience certain horrors, glimpses of punishment which would perhaps yet find its hour.

She dreamt she saw the Polish Rider passing slowly by and he was weeping and she called out to him, but he turned his head away. She dreamt that she was drowning in the pool of tears.

I saw . . . what I've really know all along, that you are my truth. For me you are the way the truth and the life. Only here can I be totally myself.

Their hands touched, their knees touched. They were both trembling.

I'm falling in love with you again, most terribly in love.""I've never been out of love with you, never for a second.

There's no point in talking it over. It would only make things worse. There's nothing to say. I just love you. That's all of it.""That's half of it," said Ducane. "Possibly over dinner I might tell you the other half.