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Top 500 Iris Murdoch Quotes (2025 Update)
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Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’ve thought about nothing else but you.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I wanted to drag us all down into some common pool of feeling, I wanted to stop this conventional machine of awful insincere politeness.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You don’t know what it’s like to be me, you don’t know what it’s like to be all tattered and destroyed inside.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You know when things get inside you and you can’t stop going round and round the same piece of misery.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Literature must always represent a battle between real people and images’.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Anyway, as you say, what the hell. I know, I’ve been to hell, I’ve seen it, I’ve been shown round. I’ll kill myself. You’ll see, you’ll be sorry.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Clement held her hand for a moment; knowing that after that moment the darkness would begin.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You can’t imagine what it’s like when every moment you’re conscious you’re in the most frightful pain.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “And what is love anyway? Love’s all over the mountain where the beautiful go to die no doubt, but I cannot attach much meaning to your idea of such a long-lasting love for someone you lost sight of so long ago. Perhaps it’s something you’ve invented now.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “What emotion had so invaded me? Fear? It is sometimes curiously difficult to name the emotion from which one suffers. The naming of it is sometimes unimportant, sometimes crucial.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The whole thing, the way it all happened, was shattering. And what it shattered most of all was some conception I’d had of myself, some wholeness.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “There is a pointlessness of summer London more awful than anything which fogs or early afternoon twilights are able to evoke, a summer mood of yawning and glazing eyes and little nightmare-ridden sleeps in bored and desperate rooms. With this ennui, evil comes creeping through the city, the evil of indifference and sleepiness and lack of care. At such a time the long-fought temptation is wearily yielded to, and the long-dreamt-of crime is with shoulder-shrugging casualness committed at last.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Sometimes I think he will become quite desperate – with the pain of simply being himself – he might do anything.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “How fearful that dark shadow is when we catch sight of it in the life of another. No wonder those at whom that black arrow is aimed so often turn and flee. How unendurable it can be, the love another bears us. I would never persecute my darling with that dread knowledge. From now onward until the world ended everything must remain, although utterly changed, exactly as it was before.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “There can scarcely be anything worse than surviving something which shatters your mind and leaves you obsessed with revenge.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I am out of the saga, he thought. He had a heavy sense of being left in total isolation; everyone had withdrawn from him and the person who could most have helped him was pre-empted by another.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Their hands touched, their knees touched. They were both trembling.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “He did not consciously wish for death but he grieved at night for some blank thing which he could not even name.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Oh God, that conversation last night or this morning or whenever that devil-ridden scrap of nightmare had been. How could two rational beings go on and on simply saying the same awful things to each other week after week, month after month?”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Lucas hated other people, and also hated himself.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You can’t kiss me and vanish.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “And could it be true without other awful things being true as well?”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You are preserving your dignity by refusing to show your feelings. But there are moments when love ought to be undignified, extravagant, even violent.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Sentimentally and in the soul it went on for ages, it still goes on, it goes on and on.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “We all live in the interstices of each other’s lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Filthy lucre! Filthy lucre!” I could hear Sammy saying, with the voice of a man cursing the woman he has ruined.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’ve somehow run myself into hell. There must be many entrances.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart, was something I had not experienced with any other woman.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I wanted consolation, I wanted love, I wanted, to save me, some colossal and powerful love such as I had never known before.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I want to have things clear,’ I said. ‘You’re offering me a sinecure.’ ‘I’m not sure what that is,’ said Madge, ‘but I expect it’s that.’ ‘A sinecure is when you get money for doing nothing,’ I said. ‘But isn’t that exactly what you’ve always wanted?’ said Madge.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “How irrevocably spoilt, down to its minutest detail, his world was now. Even the countryside was spoilt, the animals, the birds, the flowers. There was nowhere to run to.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Are we not somehow compelled by love? I shall not let one day pass without giving you the assurance of mine. Surely there is a future for us together. I am yours yours yours.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “With strong magnetic force the human heart is drawn to consolation; and even grieving becomes consolation in the end.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I am going mad, she thought, I am in some sort of silent raging grief of which I shall die, everything has gone.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “There are false suns, easier to gaze upon and far more comforting than the true one.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The exercise of power is a dangerous delight. The short path is the only path but it is very steep.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “But I had come to where I had never been before, the blessed point of sufficient desperation.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’ve felt so sad for years about you. My love for you has always had a sad face.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “He felt indestructible because destroyed.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Nothing happened; yet there were disturbing signs and portents.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It is evening. The sea is golden, speckled with white points of light, lapping with a sort of mechanical self-satisfaction under a pale green sky. How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Where do they come from, these tears?”
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