“. . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.”
Source: The Unicorn
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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“(Only a fool despises tomato ketchup.)”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I am not a very nice character. You must get to know me some time.”
Source: The Black Prince
Source: A Severed Head
“She thought sadly, gaiety and laughter are not in my destiny.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.”
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I am just a past with no present.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“You are sad." "I am always sad.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It's not even like memory. It's all just there." "All the time, Willy?" "Every hour, every minute.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Nice and the Good
“You have sometimes thought of going back?" "Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“The absence of the loved person is so absolute.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“Forgive me for not being able to be with you.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Black Prince
“I'm not young. I've never had any youth.”
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
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“. . . the superiority of some infinite reserve and the mystery of some infinite sadness.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: Henry and Cato
“He wished he was not always young again in his dreams, it made waking up so sad.”
Source: Henry and Cato
Source: Henry and Cato
Source: Henry and Cato
“That love all belonged to the elapsed moment.”
Source: Henry and Cato
“We did really love each other . . . didn't we? Didn't we? In the name of that reality — M.”
Source: A Severed Head
Source: The Green Knight