704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

But I had come to where I had never been before, the blessed point of sufficient desperation.

The madcap English weather which had been putting on a passable imitation of June now decided to play March.

Everyone seemed to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed except me.

Who is one's first love? Who indeed.

Were they waltzing, at that fleeting moment which the camera seized and tossed on into the future? Her feet seem scarcely to touch the dance floor.

I have battered destructively and in vain upon the mystery of someone else's life and must cease at last.

But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.

My God, that bloody casket has fallen on the floor! Some people were hammering in the next flat and it fell off its bracket. The lid has come off and whatever was inside it has certainly got out. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder?

Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.