704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

Love is the only justice.

Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?

Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.

Sometimes I just feel so shut in, with all those people and they've all got something while I've got nothing.

You can't imagine what it's like when every moment you're conscious you're in the most frightful pain.

She would give ease to his too long wandering heart, and then he could live more fully in the world of other people, more able, because more happy, to give them his full attention.

Mary thought suddenly, this is an abomination, sitting here and having this conventional conversation when I feel so desperate and deprived and torn inside. She thought, is there nothing I can do about it?

I know how he is . . . and I can see he's not a convenient man to be in love with.

A woman in love is a great spiritual force.