704 Quotes About Iris-murdoch

He did not read. This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading.

I tried to think these thoughts but they remained intolerably abstract, while a pain in my body told me what was real.

We did really love each other . . . didn't we? Didn't we? In the name of that reality —M.

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart, was something I had not experienced with any other woman.

I run, I run, I am gathered to your heart. But no, she thought, it's not like that. I am alone. I cannot reach anybody.

I suspect the study of English literature is doing you no good, it's full of all sorts of romantic high-flown nonsense. You've been reading Shelley.""I plead guilty to that crime.

There's a kind of reality, a kind of truth.

Girls don't want men to be quiet and gentle, I'm told. If you're not panting with impatient lust they think you're not interested.

Ludens was continually aware of his father's distress.