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