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Top 500 Iris Murdoch Quotes (2025 Update)
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Iris Murdoch Quote: “However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “And do stop sneezing. It annoys me so much when people sneeze.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “But I can’t do anything for him and he can’t do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “How can we not be dooms to each other?”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “This figure, which I had so vaguely, idly, noticed before was now utterly changed in my eyes. The whole world was its background. And between me and it there hovered, perhaps for the last time, the vision of a slim long-legged girl with gleaming thighs. I ran.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I just hope – if he does come – it won’t be some sort of horror show.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You talk of freedom – I’ve never had it! I’ve been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again!”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The room had the rather sinister tedium which some bedrooms have, a sort of weary banality which is a reminder of death. A dressing table can be a terrible thing.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I know that human life is horrible. I know that it is utterly unlike art. I have no religion except my own task of being. Conventional religions are dream stuff. Always a world of fear and horror lies but a millimetre away. Any man, even the greatest, can be broken in a moment and has no refuge. Any theory which denies this is a lie.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “You’re doing your thing, why can’t I do my thing? I must be me even if I suffer for it.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’ve never had any luck, Brad. I don’t even hope for any any more.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “How absolute the knave is!”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Desperate for help, living his life now as a hideous dream, he had told nobody.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Of course we have an ‘unconscious mind’ and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a ‘scientific’ one.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I can’t tell you – oh I can’t tell you – how awful – how sort of unlivable – everything is now – like a great black wall in front of me – Something’s got to smash.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It’s much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The most interesting things are always happening behind one.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “If I see her she may kill hope.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I’m not interested. I never liked him. He’s some sort scoundrel.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn’t talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “The morning brought the crisis of my life. But it was not anything that I could have conceived of in my wildest imaginings.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, “Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “Better keep such things decently buried.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts.”
Iris Murdoch Quote: “My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person.”
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