Novelist Iris Murdoch Best Quotes

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The Notion That One Will Not Survive A Particular Catastrophe Is, In General Terms, A Comfort Since It Is Equivalent To Abolishing The Catastrophe.
– Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's Quotes About Catastrophe
Iris Murdoch’s Quotes About Catastrophe

Writing Is Like Getting Married. One Should Never Commit Oneself Until One Is Amazed At One’s Luck.
– Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's Quotes On Writing
Iris Murdoch’s Quotes On Writing

The Absolute Yearning Of One Human Body For Another Particular Body And Its Indifference To Substitutes Is One Of Life’s Major Mysteries.
– Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's Quotes On Life's Mysteries
Iris Murdoch’s Quotes On Life’s Mysteries

Anything That Consoles Is Fake.
– Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's Quotes On Consoles
Iris Murdoch’s Quotes On Consoles

In Philosophy If You Aren’t Moving At A Snail’s Pace You Aren’t Moving At All.
– Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's Quotes About Moving
Iris Murdoch’s Quotes About Moving

Between Saying And Doing, Many A Pair Of Shoes Is Worn Out.

– Iris Murdoch

 

We Live In A Fantasy World, A World Of Illusion. The Great Task In Life Is To Find Reality.

– Iris Murdoch

 

All Art Is A Struggle To Be, In A Particular Sort Of Way, Virtuous.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Falling Out Of Love Is Chiefly A Matter Of Forgetting How Charming Someone Is.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Happiness Is A Matter Of One’s Most Ordinary And Everyday Mode Of Consciousness Being Busy And Lively And Unconcerned With Self.

– Iris Murdoch

 

I Think Being A Woman Is Like Being Irish. Everyone Says You’re Important And Nice, But You Take Second Place All The Same.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Love Is The Difficult Realization That Something Other Than Oneself Is Real.

– Iris Murdoch

 

People From A Planet Without Flowers Would Think We Must Be Mad With Joy The Whole Time To Have Such Things About Us.

– Iris Murdoch

 

 

We Can Only Learn To Love By Loving.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Every Man Needs Two Women: A Quiet Home-Maker, And A Thrilling Nymph.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Falling Out Of Love Is Very Enlightening. For A Short While You See The World With New Eyes.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Perhaps Misguided Moral Passion Is Better Than Confused Indifference.

– Iris Murdoch

 

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.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Art Is The Final Cunning Of The Human Soul Which Would Rather Do Anything Than Face The Gods.

– Iris Murdoch

 

No Love Is Entirely Without Worth, Even When The Frivolous Calls To The Frivolous And The Base To The Base.

– Iris Murdoch

 

The Cry Of Equality Pulls Everyone Down.

– Iris Murdoch

 

A Bad Review Is Even Less Important Than Whether It Is Raining In Patagonia.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Perhaps When Distant People On Other Planets Pick Up Some Wavelength Of Ours All They Hear Is A Continuous Scream.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Philosophy! Empty Thinking By Ignorant Conceited Men Who Think They Can Digest Without Eating!

– Iris Murdoch

 

There Is No Substitute For The Comfort Supplied By The Utterly Taken-For-Granted Relationship.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Being Good Is Just A Matter Of Temperament In The End.

– Iris Murdoch

We Shall Be Better Prepared For The Future If We See How Terrible, How Doomed The Present Is.

– Iris Murdoch

 

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.

– Iris Murdoch

 

I See Myself As Rhoda, Not Mary Tyler Moore.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Human Affairs Are Not Serious, But They Have To Be Taken Seriously.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Moralistic Is Not Moral. And As For Truth – Well, It’s Like Brown – It’s Not In The Spectrum. Truth Is So Generic.

– Iris Murdoch

 

I Daresay Anything Can Be Made Holy By Being Sincerely Worshipped.

– Iris Murdoch

 

One Doesn’t Have To Get Anywhere In A Marriage. It’s Not A Public Conveyance.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Only Lies And Evil Come From Letting People Off.

– Iris Murdoch

 

Literature Could Be Said To Be A Sort Of Disciplined Technique For Arousing Certain Emotions.

– Iris Murdoch

 

He Was A Sociologist; He Had Got Into An Intellectual Muddle Early On In Life And Never Managed To Get Out.

– Iris Murdoch