704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

I know that human life is horrible. I know that it is utterly unlike art. I have no religion except my own task of being. Conventional religions are dream stuff. Always a world of fear and horror lies but a millimetre away. Any man, even the greatest, can be broken in a moment and has no refuge. Any theory which denies this is a lie.

I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.

One can't whistle up happiness. It's a gift of nature and I haven't got it.

I have been on the whole a lucky man. And I would say that even now. Perhaps especially I would say it now.

How little perhaps can words convey except in the hands of a genius.

And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.

I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell—just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later—I wish I'd told him.

Oh how stupid I am, he said to himself, using words which he had used ever so often since he was a child. At that moment it seemed to him that his life had consisted of one blunder after another, and now aged thirty-one he was well on into the stupidest of all.

He thought about the future and it was a vibrating darkness. He felt fear.