“I told you I was going to retire from the world. That's still on. You remember that.”
Source: The Green Knight
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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
“One might have all sorts of reasons for avoiding people. It's none of our business.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Nice and the Good
“What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I'm being led — on some dark way.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I'm sorry I was awful. I'm so full of terrors.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“She thought, I shall die of misery and pain.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
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Source: The Green Knight
“Well, it's such an adventure we shall talk about it forever!”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“She's also in love with the 'Polish Rider'." "Who's he?" "A picture by Rembrandt.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
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Source: The Green Knight
“You just seem to have folded up the future." "It is folded up.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“I don't know what love can do for the terrible things of life.”
Source: The Green Knight
“It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Sentimentally and in the soul it went on for ages, it still goes on, it goes on and on.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I feel so depressed. I have to be merry and bright while I just want to cry.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“Lucas hated other people, and also hated himself.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Nothing happened; yet there were disturbing signs and portents.”
Source: The Green Knight
“But now he was dreaming, he was wildly imagining things.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“I have always wanted to kill you, ever since the moment when I learnt of your existence.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“So was she on the side of dragons and indifferent to the fate of princesses?”
Source: The Green Knight
“The human mind is a weird place.”
Source: The Green Knight
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“Nothing will bring me peace except revenge.”
Source: The Green Knight
“We all love a glimpse of Lucas, it's a religious experience.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“He awoke the next morning to an instant consciousness of disaster.”
Source: The Green Knight