Iris Murdoch on love
Iris Murdoch82 quotes“Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat- Bats have radar. Yours doesnt seem to be working.”
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch I don’t think I can marry, I’m not fit for it, I’m not real enough. That’s the trouble. I’m a puppet that’s realised what’s wrong with itself and it’s horrible. I’m propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I’m propped up crying in a corner.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch An experience is richest not talked of.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch
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