704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.

But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.

Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.

Coming events do cast shadows.

I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.

Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.

Of course I love Arnold, but I can hate him too, and it can go along with love that one never forgives certain things.

The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.

The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)