704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.

The grass on the other side of the road was a pullulating emerald green, the rocks that grew here and there among the grass were almost dazzlingly alight with little diamonds. The warm air met me in a wave, thick with land smells of earth and growth and flowers.

There are secret saints with strange destinies.

It ceased at last, as everything dreadful has to cease, even if it ceases only by death.

But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.

But by now anything was better than hope.

Charles, don't destroy yourself," said James. "Why are you always so intent on breaking everything that surrounds and supports you?

But I wanted to make what was terrible so much worse so as to be sure that it was fatal; like Hartley protecting herself by thinking I must hate her.

There was a sort of grey dripping figure that kept trying to rise up in my mind and which I ruthlessly violently banished.