704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

It was too late to go to Gaze now, everyone would be in bed. It was a comforting thought. Whatever was happening it was not happening now. There was nothing he could do now. Sleep was overwhelming him again, great clouds and folds of sleep like a warm fog.

Understanding was out of the question; and indeed how passionately, just then, I did not want to be understood.

What I really wanted just then was to put Georgie in cold storage. It is unfortunate that other human beings cannot be conveniently immobilized.

She felt above all, as a sort of categorical imperative, the desire to set Hannah free, to smash up all her eerie magical surroundings, to let the fresh air in at last; even if the result should be some dreadful suffering.

I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.

And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two.

If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.

We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.

Decide what you want and go for it, Fred, it's just a matter of will power!" I remember you saying that to me more than once.'I did not recall saying this nor did it sound like anything which anyone would say more than once, assuming he had ever had the misfortune to say it at all, but I was glad that Freddie had such rosy memories.