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Iris Murdoch Quote: “I am just a past with no present.”

251. “I am just a past with no present.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.”

252. “Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.”

253. “In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”

254. “He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “There are special nightmares for the daytime sleeper: little nervous dreams tossed into some brief restless moments of unconsciousness and breaking through the surface of the mind to become confused at once with the horror of some waking vision. Such are these awakenings, like an awakening in the grave, when one opens one’s eyes, stretched out rigid with clenched hands, waiting for some misery to declare itself; but for a long time it lies to suffocation upon the chest and utters no word.”

255. “There are special nightmares for the daytime sleeper: little nervous dreams tossed into some brief restless moments of unconsciousness and breaking through the surface of the mind to become confused at once with the horror of some waking vision. Such are these awakenings, like an awakening in the grave, when one opens one’s eyes, stretched out rigid with clenched hands, waiting for some misery to declare itself; but for a long time it lies to suffocation upon the chest and utters no word.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Where’s your house?’ ‘Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.”

256. “Where’s your house?’ ‘Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.”

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

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “All dreams are sinister.”

258. “All dreams are sinister.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.”

259. “How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”

260. “She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved nothing is gauche. Every move of the head, every tone of the voice, every laugh or grunt or cough or twitch of the nose is as valuable and revealing as a glimpse of paradise.”

261. “Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved nothing is gauche. Every move of the head, every tone of the voice, every laugh or grunt or cough or twitch of the nose is as valuable and revealing as a glimpse of paradise.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!”

262. “Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “That’s how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that’s how bloody awful it is being Irish!”

263. “That’s how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that’s how bloody awful it is being Irish!”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.”

264. “She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, ‘another place’.”

265. “He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, ‘another place’.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I know people can be awful dooms for each other.”

266. “I know people can be awful dooms for each other.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “What the cold light showed me was that my situation was simply unlivable. I wanted, with a desire greater than any desire which I had ever conceived could exist without instantly killing its owner by spontaneous combustion, something which I simply could not have.”

267. “What the cold light showed me was that my situation was simply unlivable. I wanted, with a desire greater than any desire which I had ever conceived could exist without instantly killing its owner by spontaneous combustion, something which I simply could not have.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.”

268. “Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “We’re just living on our emotions and eating each other.”

269. “We’re just living on our emotions and eating each other.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.”

270. “How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.”

271. “Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “The problems were too evident, they sat together eyeing them in silence. The stage now belonged to the young people, there would be happenings. Yet nothing happened; and Clement felt as if a magic spell had paralysed them all.”

272. “The problems were too evident, they sat together eyeing them in silence. The stage now belonged to the young people, there would be happenings. Yet nothing happened; and Clement felt as if a magic spell had paralysed them all.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is the idea which is vulgarized by existentialists and linguistic philosophers when they make good into a mere matter of personal choice. It cannot be defined, not because it is a function of our freedom, but because we do not know it.”

273. “What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is the idea which is vulgarized by existentialists and linguistic philosophers when they make good into a mere matter of personal choice. It cannot be defined, not because it is a function of our freedom, but because we do not know it.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths.”

274. “Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Or was some act of revenge still pending, some thunderbolt long cherished and prepared?”

275. “Or was some act of revenge still pending, some thunderbolt long cherished and prepared?”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”

276. “You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.”

277. “Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer’s mind.”

278. “As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer’s mind.”

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Iris Murdoch Quote: “If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.”

279. “If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.”

280. “To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “You can’t magic yourself out of the situation, you’ve got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.”

281. “You can’t magic yourself out of the situation, you’ve got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “The presence of the loved one is perhaps always accompanied by anxiety. Mortals must tremble, where angels might enjoy. But this one grain of darkness cannot be accounted a blemish. It graces the present moment with a kind of violence which makes an ecstasy of time.”

282. “The presence of the loved one is perhaps always accompanied by anxiety. Mortals must tremble, where angels might enjoy. But this one grain of darkness cannot be accounted a blemish. It graces the present moment with a kind of violence which makes an ecstasy of time.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless.”

283. “I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.”

284. “Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Marriage isn’t a tram. It doesn’t have to get anywhere.”

285. “Marriage isn’t a tram. It doesn’t have to get anywhere.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.”

286. “I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.”

287. “Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.”

288. “The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible.”

289. “Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one’s got to stop muddling.”

290. “We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one’s got to stop muddling.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Another person’s illness is often harder to bear than one’s own.”

291. “Another person’s illness is often harder to bear than one’s own.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’m not young. I’ve never had any youth.”

292. “I’m not young. I’ve never had any youth.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.”

293. “Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.”

294. “Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”

295. “The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He felt as if something had been completed and he would never see any of those people again.”

296. “He felt as if something had been completed and he would never see any of those people again.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?”

297. “What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He was glad that he had expressed to her, however blunderingly, what he felt. He was glad that he had held her hand.”

298. “He was glad that he had expressed to her, however blunderingly, what he felt. He was glad that he had held her hand.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “This is an age of demons and amoral angels and all sorts of deep fears, like the first centuries of the Christian era, it’s an age of extreme solutions.”

299. “This is an age of demons and amoral angels and all sorts of deep fears, like the first centuries of the Christian era, it’s an age of extreme solutions.”

— Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Quote: “He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.”

300. “He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.”

— Iris Murdoch

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