Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
“I've somehow run myself into hell. There must be many entrances.”
Source: Henry and Cato
Source: The Black Prince
Source: The Green Knight
“I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Well, you won't abandon me, will you." "Don't be silly, Ludens, you are buckled to my heart.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Source: The Message To The Planet
“You can't go through the looking-glass without cutting yourself.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“I feel I'm living on pain, riding on it, like a sea.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“You can't go through the looking-glass without getting cut. You know that now, don't you?”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“Human life is short, we don't exist all that much. A pale brief flicker in the dark.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Black Prince
“So. The door was open into the dark and he had but to walk through it.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Message To The Planet
“She stood there awkwardly, incapable of further theatre.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Sea, The Sea
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Unicorn
“Enormous vistas of thought were unrolling in my mind.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea