704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.

The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.

But there are times of suffering which remain in our lives like black absolutes and are not blotted out. Fortunate are those for whom these black stars shed some sort of light.

Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at.

It's not my fault! It can't make any difference, can it?""You understand nothing. You are a destroyer, a black spiteful destroyer. You are the sort of person who goes around in a dream smashing things . . . You aren't really here at all.

I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.

The morning brought the crisis of my life. But it was not anything that I could have conceived of in my wildest imaginings.

I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless.

But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.