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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
— Iris Murdoch
If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
— Christopher Buckley
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
— Iris Murdoch
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
— Iris Murdoch
The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
— Iris Murdoch
Being in love is an exhausting business.
— Iris Murdoch
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
— Iris Murdoch
Evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
— Iris Murdoch
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
— Iris Murdoch
A death is the most terrible of facts.
— Iris Murdoch
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
— Iris Murdoch
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
— Iris Murdoch
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
— Iris Murdoch
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
— Iris Murdoch
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
— Iris Murdoch
Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.
— Iris Murdoch
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
— Iris Murdoch
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
— Iris Murdoch
Being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.
— Iris Murdoch
youth is a marvelous garment
— Iris Murdoch
My heart was beating like an army on the march.
— Iris Murdoch
The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.
— Iris Murdoch
What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
— Iris Murdoch
Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things.
— Iris Murdoch
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
— Iris Murdoch
A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
— Iris Murdoch
One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.
— Iris Murdoch
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
— Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
— A. N. Wilson
We may love our chains and our stripes too.
— Iris Murdoch
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
— Iris Murdoch
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [ ... ] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
— Iris Murdoch
Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She
— Iris Murdoch
But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
— Iris Murdoch
But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last.
— Iris Murdoch
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
— Iris Murdoch
I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy.
— Iris Murdoch
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
— Iris Murdoch
The best thing about being God would be making the heads.
— Iris Murdoch
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
— Iris Murdoch
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
— Iris Murdoch
moved through a soft tide
— Iris Murdoch
My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person.
— Iris Murdoch
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
— Iris Murdoch
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
— Iris Murdoch
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
— Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
— Iris Murdoch
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
— Iris Murdoch
Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.
— Iris Murdoch
let us not waste love, it is rare enough
— Iris Murdoch
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
— Iris Murdoch
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
— Iris Murdoch
I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.
— Judi Dench
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
— Iris Murdoch
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
— Iris Murdoch
She tells so many different stories and they are all false.
— Iris Murdoch
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
— Iris Murdoch
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
— Iris Murdoch
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
— Iris Murdoch
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.
— Iris Murdoch
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
— Iris Murdoch
I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
— Iris Murdoch
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
— Iris Murdoch
Anything that consoles is fake.
— Iris Murdoch
