704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

You said you were having fun.""Well, yes and no, strictly speaking I was in hell. Perhaps I have always been there. One can have fun in hell.

But my wants are huge, my desires are rapacious, I want love, I want the splendour and violence of love, and I want it now, I want someone of my own.

Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?

I might say too that you are the person who ought to help me, since you do bear some responsibility for having awakened in me such an immense, such a truly monstrous degree of love.

If I could only pray, he thought, if there was only some reservoir of force out of which I could draw something extra.

Of course she had read this work many times before, but there were certain parts to which she passionately returned: so cool, so elegant, so beautiful, so terrible. As she read tears began to stream down her face.

Please excuse this outpouring which perhaps makes no sense but is the utter darkness of my spirit pouring from me like black blood.

You're doing your thing, why can't I do my thing? I must be me even if I suffer for it.

And she shivered with a dazzled joy.