Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.
IRIS MURDOCHI have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Time, like the sea, unties all knots.
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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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There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
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I have nobody in the world. I’ll kill myself. That’s best. Everyone will say, It’s for the best that she killed herself, she’s better off dead. I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours just screaming with hatred and with the pain of it, oh the pain of it.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.
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Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
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Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.
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