Words matter. These are the best Iris Murdoch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Anything that consoles is fake.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth – well, it’s like brown – it’s not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
