704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

Settle down! she thought. Yes, settle down into dreariness and quietness and forgetfulness and boredom.

This thought was so heavy with despair that she almost began to cry again.

Theo wanted to call him back. But then he thought, oh let him go, there's no mending a fruitless love, it just has to be endured.

Don't be hurt by me.""I can't help being hurt —

O death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary guilty ghost out of my careful breast.

You have sometimes thought of going back?""Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.

It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.

I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.

It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.