Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
IRIS MURDOCHEvery artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
IRIS MURDOCHBereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
IRIS MURDOCHPerhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
IRIS MURDOCHWe defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
IRIS MURDOCHWhat I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
IRIS MURDOCHThis sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart.
IRIS MURDOCHAnything that consoles is fake.
IRIS MURDOCHWe can only learn to love by loving.
IRIS MURDOCHI think being a woman is like being Irish, Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
IRIS MURDOCHI’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
IRIS MURDOCHReading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
IRIS MURDOCHI feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
IRIS MURDOCHWe need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
IRIS MURDOCHCoffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
IRIS MURDOCHGuilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
IRIS MURDOCHYouth is a marvelous garment.
IRIS MURDOCH