Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes

  • Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working. – Iris Murdoch

    Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working.– Iris Murdoch

  • But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. – Iris Murdoch

    But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.– Iris Murdoch

  • Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. – Iris Murdoch

    Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.– Iris Murdoch

  • Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch

    Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.– Iris Murdoch

  • It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. – Iris Murdoch

    It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.– Iris Murdoch

  • One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch

    One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.– Iris Murdoch

  • One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.– Iris Murdoch

  • Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch

    Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved– Iris Murdoch

  • Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved– Iris Murdoch

  • I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch

    I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.– Iris Murdoch