704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

How can we not be dooms to each other?

Maybe there are times when one should welcome defeat, tell it to come right in and sit down.

Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.

Blaise has always lived in a dream world.""We all live in dream worlds," said Monty.

Bereavement is my occupation and it absorbs me completely. You want me to touch you, to look at you with sympathy. I cannot.

You can go now. There's nothing more to learn. I am poured out and empty. Good night.

He had for many years now been spared the demons, though he was constantly aware of their continued presence. He could hear them, as it were, moving behind the wall. They belonged to him and would doubtless go with him to the grave. His mind too, like David's, ran irresistibly to the horror.

Come in, defeat, come in and make yourself at home.

Oh God, that conversation last night or this morning or whenever that devil-ridden scrap of nightmare had been. How could two rational beings go on and on simply saying the same awful things to each other week after week, month after month?