42 Quotations by Iris Murdoch
- 21. Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- 22. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so ...
- 23. Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
- 24. Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Trut ...
- 25. No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to th ...
- 26. One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
- 27. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such ...
- 28. Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
- 29. Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a cont ...
- 30. Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
- 31. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, mali ...
- 32. The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
- 33. The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
- 34. The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since ...
- 35. The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since ...
- 36. The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years withou ...
- 37. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinpri ...
- 38. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- 39. We can only know love by loving.
- 40. We can only learn to love by loving.
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