704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.

He wanted to be a universal man . . . and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.

(he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)

He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.

I'd like to to know what it is he's after, I mean, is it an experience or a thought, is it something you'd put in a book, or die for, or die of?

So. The door was open into the dark and he had but to walk through it.

I thought it might make him despair of life, but he has despaired anyway.

How could two such different worlds co-exist, how could they communicate?