I’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 MURDOCHWe are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
More Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I feel I’m at the end of something – everything is going to be different – and terrible.
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What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.
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Let us not waste love, it is rare enough.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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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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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
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Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
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That doesn’t sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me
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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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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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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
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