704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

How soon we cover up the horror of death and loss, if we can, with almost any sort of explanation, as if we had to justify the very fate which had maimed us.

They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.

To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain?

She was a part, an evidence, of some pure uncracked unfissured confidence in the good which was never there for me again.

Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.

As it is I crawl on everyday towards the tomb. When I wake in the morning I think first of death, do you?

I have felt more passion with less comfort elsewhere: the mysterious deep half-blind preferences of human beings for each other, the quick probing tentacles that seek in the dark, why one inexplicably and yet certainly loves A and is indifferent to B.

There are those who, even if valued, remain sinister witnesses from the past. James is for me such a witness. It is not even clear whether we like each other. If I were told today that James was dead my first emotion might be pleasurable; though how much does this prove?

Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.