704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

Henry's joy left him abruptly and he began anxiously to think about himself.

I want you to be able to see me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.

I am not a neurotic!""You're trembling with nerves and sensibility—""Of course I am, I'm an artist!

You've got to see me, Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?

Suppose she never got into art school, suppose she was not a painter after all? Suppose the talents which others had persuaded her she possessed were to abandon her overnight, or turn out to have been unreal all the time? Suppose she had to take a typing course or live with a word processor? I would die, she thought, I would kill myself or make myself die of grief. Already there was one great deep grief in her life.

It's terrible that one doesn't love people forever.

Do you think she'll change?""Hope nothing.""Is there a cure?""Only art. Or more love.""I should die of more love.

When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.

She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.