704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

I don't think she's had much of a life.""Well, a life is a life.""What does that mean?""One never knows. I daresay most lives are rotten. It's only when one's young one expects otherwise.

What larks we had," said James. "When?""When we were young."I could not recall any larks I had had with James. I poured out the wine and we sat in silence.

Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one's first love?

God, how the young and beautiful vanish and are no more seen.

A childhood hatred, like a childhood love, can last a lifetime.

He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.

. . . a meadow which David had known before the coming of the motorway, where he had searched for mushrooms in previous autumns, in lost quiet golden hazes.

How irrevocably spoilt, down to its minutest detail, his world was now. Even the countryside was spoilt, the animals, the birds, the flowers. There was nowhere to run to.

But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his cleverness a ghost, he knew where it was he wanted to lay his head.