“Perhaps it was a case of time overflowing.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
“I'll look after you, I'll go with you anywhere, I won't ever leave you.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I believe in you so much that you must do what I want.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“How can I even think of such a fate . . . Better to commit murder.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I see him as a god from elsewhere who has lost his way . . .”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Or was some act of revenge still pending, some thunderbolt long cherished and prepared?”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I love you, I want you, I'd die for you —”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“How could two such different worlds co-exist, how could they communicate?”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“(he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Black Prince
“Her love for men had always been somehow neurotic and unfulfilled.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem.”
Source: Henry and Cato
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
“Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.”
Source: The Black Prince
“(The false god punishes, the true god slays.)”
Source: The Black Prince
“Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at.”
Source: The Black Prince
“It was a voyage into the absurd.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.”
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
“Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Sometimes one has got to become monstrous in order to survive.”
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince